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The topography of wellness : how health and disease shaped the American landscape / Sara Jensen Carr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carr, Sara Jensen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban health--United States--History.
- Urban health.
- Environmental health--United States--History.
- Environmental health.
- City planning--Health aspects--United States--History.
- City planning.
- Epidemiology--United States--History.
- Epidemiology.
- History.
- City planning--Health aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 276 pages) : illustrations, maps
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction: Wellness and the American urban landscape
- Waste and super-infrastructure in the urban landscape
- Work and play
- Purified air in the progressive era
- Germ theory and environmental compartmentalization
- Urban decay and the metaphorical cancer of blight
- Prescriptive neighborhoods
- Whose wellness?
- The new ecology of health
- Conclusion : no green pill.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 09, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Carr, Sara Jensen. Topography of wellness
- ISBN:
- 9780813946313
- 081394631X
- Publisher Number:
- 40030773875
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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