Janna Coomans

Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores how preventative health practices shaped urban communities, social ties and living environments in the medieval Low Countries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108934855
• Artikelnr.: 70911438

Autorenporträt

Janna Coomans is a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC project 'Healthscaping Urban Europe'. She obtained her PhD on public health in the medieval Low Countries cum laude, which received the Praemium Erasmianum and Pro Civitate prizes. Her main research interests are the history of cities, health and environments, as well as gender, crime and daily politics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Galenic Health and the Biopolitics of Flow
2. The Purged Urban Heart: Municipal Sanitation
3. Food, Health and the Marketplace
4. Good Neighbours: Nuisance and Harmony in Living Environments
5. Plague in Urban Healthscapes
6. Building Community, Balancing Public Health and Order
Conclusion: Urban Health Expeditions.