“In a country every way by nature favourable to health”: Landscape and public health in Victorian rural Wales

Waddington, Keir ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8833-8855 2014. “In a country every way by nature favourable to health”: Landscape and public health in Victorian rural Wales. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 31 (2) , pp. 183-204. 10.3138/cbmh.31.2.183

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Abstract

Rather than seeing landscape as an invisible backdrop to sanitary reform, this article offers another context through which to consider the problems facing local authorities and sanitary officials in identifying and tackling sanitary problems. Using Wales as a case study, this article first addresses how rural landscapes were imagined and second how as “environments” and “territories” they influenced patterns of sanitary reform. If underlying ideological meanings were attached to the landscape, as this article suggests, the rural landscape was a plural one in that it also acted as a barrier to sanitary reform.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	History, Archaeology and Religion
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Additional Information:	landscape, place, public health, Wales
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
ISSN:	0823-2105
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	02 Dec 2024 08:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/64026

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