"In a tour that is not for the squeamish, Hubbub looks at offences to each of the five senses, providing fresh insight into the intense experience of everyday life in an early modern city."--Back cover
"Modern city-dwellers suffer their share of unpleasant experiences - traffic jams, noisy neighbours, pollution, food scares - but urban nuisances of the past existed on a different scale entirely, Hubbub shows in vivid detail. Focusing on offences to the eyes, ears, noses, taste…
Sanitation has received little attention from law & policy makers, & implementers for a long time although it was not completely outside the purview of laws & policies in India. The past couple of decades have witnessed a significant change in the manner in which sanitation is v…
This title discusses various effects of heavy metal exposure to legumes as well as the bioremediation potential of rhizosphere microbes. Availability of heavy metals, their uptake and the effects of metals on germination and various physiological functions of plants including le…
This book explores the nature and type of prevalent collective behaviour that influences women empowerment, women workforce participation and behavioural change in sanitation. The influence of collective norms and customs have been investigated through a series of studies throug…
Sociology of sanitation: environmental sanitation, public health and socia…
by National Conference on "Sociology of Sanitation": Environmental Sanitation, Public Health, and Social Deprivation, New Delhi, India), Sulabh International Centre for Action Sociology, Sulabh International Social Service Organisation (New Delhi, India)
Papers presented at the National Conference on "Sociology of Sanitation": Environmental Sanitation, Public Health, and Social Deprivation, organised by Sulabh International Centre for Action Sociology in close collaboration with Sulabh International Social Service Organisation a…
Contagious Divides charts the dynamic transformation of representations of Chinese immigrants from medical menace in the nineteenth century to model citizen in the mid-twentieth century. Examining the cultural politics of public health and Chinese immigration in San Francisco, t…
Examining matters from the changing ideas of contagion in classical Chinese medical thought to attempts to eradicate SARS in 2003, the essays in this collection explore efforts to overcome disease and improve human health in Chinese regions of East Asia from the late 19th centur…