Articles
- Urban sanitation and the decline of mortalityThis paper introduces a special issue of The History of the Family on sanitation and urban mortality.
- Global Monitoring of Water Supply and Sanitation: History, Methods and Future ChallengesInternational monitoring of drinking water and sanitation shapes awareness of countries‘ needs and informs policy, implementation and research efforts to extend and improve services.
- A Brief History of Milk Hygiene and Its Impact on Infant Mortality from 1875 to 1925 and Implications for Today: A ReviewThe objective of this review is to provide an integrated historical account of the complex, often convoluted events impacting milk hygiene and its resultant effect on infant mortality from 1875 to 1925.
- A history of cleanliness: Looking at hygiene practices‘We live in unmistakeably filthy times. For the first time in human history, over half the world’s inhabitants live in urban environments, and exposure to dirt comes with overcrowding, inadequate sanitation and the industrial shaping of metropolitan life. Meanwhile, scientists are
debating whether our increasing obsession with cleanliness is stripping away our ability to combat
infection.
Books
The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle Against Filth and Germs by ISBN: 9780801883491Publication Date: 2006-06-06
Bodily and Spiritual Hygiene in Medieval and Early Modern Literature by ISBN: 9783110523294Publication Date: 2017-03-20
A History of Women's Menstruation from Ancient Greece to the Twenty-First Century by ISBN: 9780773426481Publication Date: 2012-08-19
