Studying the contents of each work shows which authors were merely copying the Greek theory of humours and miasma, and which made genuine contributions to the field.
The present investigation examines the resonance of such catastrophes in the correspondence network of the universal scholar Albrecht von Haller (1708–77).
The 1831 cholera riot in St. Petersburg was an extreme result of the city’s immense water pollution problem and led to social conflict between the educated classes and the poor people.
The first cholera epidemic in St. Petersburg, then capital of the Russian Empire, brought to light the city’s enormous sanitary problems. During the course of the epidemic 12,540 people sickened and 6,449 died.
This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Famines in Late Nineteenth-Century India: Politics, Culture, and Environmental Justice”—written and curated by sociologist Naresh Chandra Sourabh and economic histrorian Timo Myllyntaus.
An invasive mollusk called the shipworm (Teredo navalis) attacked coastal dikes in the Netherlands in the 1730s, leading to changes in the design of dikes.
This article discusses how the understanding of the key concepts and the links between health, water, and sanitation has changed over time.
A tertian fever epidemic occurred in Barcelona from 1783 to 1786 and affected approximately one million people.
Cholera and typhoid fever did play a role in sanitary reform in Linz/Donau, but cannot be interpreted as the trigger of these reforms.
What can we learn from human responses to epidemics and pandemics in history? What insights can ecological and environmental humanities perspectives provide? This new and growing collection of annotated links to open-access media (analyses, primary sources, and digital resources) helps put pandemics in context.
