In Pursuit of Healthy Environments
In Pursuit of Healthy Environments brings temporal depth to a highly topical issue: the interaction between health and the environment. By means of a rich set of historical case studies from the Americas to Europe and from the tropics to the Arctic, the volume demonstrates that the concern for creating and finding healthy environments is not a new one, shows how the link between the environment and health has been perceived at different times and in different cultures and discusses the practical implications of these conceptualizations.
The book, written by scholars from architecture, cultural anthropology, history, Indigenous Studies, media studies and sociology, will be of interest to a reader interested in the historical roots of todays health-related environmental issues. It discusses the spatiality and materiality of the conceptions of health and the practices of nurture in colonial and post-colonial environments and shows how greatly indigenous and colonial mindsets have differed during the last 300 years.
It also investigates how certain environments have become labelled as healthy and life-preserving while others are stigmatized by death and disease and how fluctuating these notions can be. Finally, it analyses the materialities and immaterialities, as well as the transgenerational and transboundary characters of environmental and medical knowledge.
Esa Ruuskanen is a Senior Research Fellow and the person responsible for the minor in Environmental Humanities at the University of Oulu, Finland. His research interests include the environmental history of Western and Northern European peatlands, energy histories and the environment-technology interaction.
Heini Hakosalo works as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oulu, Finland. She specializes in modern and contemporary history of medicine. Her research interests include the history of brain sciences in late nineteenth-century Europe, the beginnings of womens medical education in Finland and Sweden, the history of tuberculosis in twentieth-century Finland, and the history of birth cohort studies after the Second World War.
Routledge Studies in Environment, Culture, and Society
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This series opens up a forum for advances in environmental studies relating to society and its social, cultural, and economic underpinnings. The underlying assumption guiding this series is that there is an important, and so far little-explored, interaction between societal as well as cultural givens and the ways in which societies both create and respond to environmental issues. As such, this series encourages the exploration of the links between prevalent practices, beliefs and values, as differentially manifested in diverse societies, and the distinct ways in which those societies confront the environment.
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In Pursuit of Healthy Environments
Historical Cases on the EnvironmentHealth Nexus
Edited by Esa Ruuskanen and Heini Hakosalo
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In Pursuit of Healthy Environments
Historical Cases on the EnvironmentHealth Nexus
Edited by Esa Ruuskanen and Heini Hakosalo
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Names: Ruuskanen, Esa, editor. | Hakosalo, Heini, editor.
Title: In pursuit of healthy environments : historical cases on the environmenthealth nexus / edited by Esa Ruuskanen and Heini Hakosalo.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. |
Series: Routledge studies in environment, culture, and society |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020023746 (print) | LCCN 2020023747 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367259051 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367259099 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Environmental healthHistory. |
Environmental healthHistoryCase studies.
Classification: LCC RA565 .I55 2021 (print) |
LCC RA565 (ebook) | DDC 362.1dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020023746
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ISBN: 978-0-367-25905-1 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-25909-9 (ebk)
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Contents
Heini Hakosalo and Esa Ruuskanen
PART I
Healthy and unhealthy environments
Dolly Jrgensen
Michael Zeheter
Panagiotis Zestanakis
Heini Hakosalo
PART II
Colonial environments and health
Marcel Hartwig
Ritva Kylli
Anu Soikkeli
Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen and Laura Prez Gil
PART III
Environmental and medical knowledge
Kalle Kananoja
Min Bae
Mikko Jauho
Petteri Pietikinen and Otto Pipatti
Heini Hakosalo and Esa Ruuskanen
Illustrations
Figures
Table
Contributors
Min Bae worked as a dentist in South Korea (DDS, Yonsei University; and Master of Clinical Dentistry in Clinical Orthodontics, Hallym University), but after changing his career (BA, Hongik University in History Education), he has worked as a history teacher (Soongeui Girls High School, Seoul). After receiving his second masters degree in 2014 (in Medical Humanities and History of Medicine, Seoul National University), he is currently a PhD student in Modern History at the University of St Andrews, UK. His academic interest areas are medical professionalism, intellectual history of medicine, and the medical market.