The environment is currently a matter of international public and academic concern, but is often considered separately from health issues. This book brings together work from environmental and health historians to conceptualise the connection between environment and health at different times and in different geographical locations.

JANE ADAMS Research Fellow, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick, UKVIRGINIA BERRIDGE Professor of History and Head of the Centre for History in Public Health, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UKCHRISTIAN BONAH Professor of the History of Medical and Health Sciences, the University of Strasbourg, FranceSIMON CARTER Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, The Open University, UKSABINE CLARKE Wellcome Trust Research Fellow and Lecturer in Modern History, the University of York, UKMARTIN GORSKY Senior Lecturer in the Contemporary History of Public Health and Health Systems, Centre for History in Public Health, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UKSIR ANDY HAINES Professor of Public Health and Primary Care, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UKCHRISTOPHER HAMLIN Professor of History and of History and Philosophy of Science, the University of Notre Dame, USAVANESSA HARDING Professor of London History, Birkbeck College, University of London, UKINGAR PALMLUND Independent Scholar, formerly affiliated to the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, UKLISA RUMIEL SSHRC Post Doctoral Fellow, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, CanadaDIETER SCHOTT Professor of Modern History, the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, GermanyCHRISTOPHER SELLERS Associate Professor of History, Stony BrookUniversity, USACHRISTIAN WARREN Associate Professor of History, Brooklyn College, USAPAUL WILKINSON Reader in Environmental Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene& Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK

List of Illustrations, Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Preface; A.Haines Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Environment, Health and History; V.Berridge& M.Gorsky Housing and Health in Early Modern London; V.Harding Environment and Disease in Ireland; C.Hamlin The Handbuch der Hygiene  A Manual of Proto-Environmental Science in Germany of 1900?; D.Schott Leagues of Sunshine: Sunlight, Health and the Environment; S.Carter Healthy Places and Healthy Regimens: British Spas 1918-1950; J.Adams Rethinking the Post War Hegemony of DDT: Insecticides Research and the British Colonial Empire; S.Clarke Health Crusades': Environmental Approaches as Public Health Strategies against Infections in Sanitary Propaganda Films, 1930 1960; C.Bonah Cross-Nationalizing the History of Industrial Hazard; C.C.Sellers The Gardener in the Machine: Biotechnological Adaptation for Life Indoors; C.Warren Exposing the Cold War Legacy: The Activist Work of Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, 1986 and 1992; L.Rumiel The Impacts on Human Health and Environment of Global Climate Change: A Review of International Politics; I.Palmlund Epilogue; P.Wilkinson