Dirt Filth and Decay in a New World Arcadia

by Wood, Pamela

• ISBN13: 9781869403485
• ISBN10: 1869403487
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-01
• Publisher: Auckland University Press

Summary

Drawing on extensive research, this social and cultural history explores how colonial settlers approached the problems of dirt, filth, disease, and decay in New Zealand during the 19th century, and the roles that health professionals and local authorities played in the protection of public health.

Author Biography

Pamela Janet Wood is an associate professor at Victoria University. She is the author of New Directions in the History of Nursing and Nursing in New Zealand: Critical Issues, Different Perspectives

Table of Contents

Health and habitat : relationships between nature, settlement, dirt and health	p. 15
Margins, miasma and mud : reducing the plasticity, marginality and putrefaction of settlement	p. 40
Guarding bodily boundaries : the city-body, poisons and pollution	p. 66
Disembodied dirt : dealing with excrement, seepage and the city as wilful sloven	p. 92
Public bodies, public dirt : corporeality and municipality - public baths, public toilets and workers with waste	p. 113
Sanitarian surveillance : inspecting nuisances : physical and moral pollution, and the interpretation of sanitary regulations	p. 136
Sanitarian surveillance : the revealing gaze : professional men, practical men and sanitary reports	p. 159
Revealing the slum : intersections of dirt, dwelling and depravity	p. 184
Bodies in disorder and decay : the hospital, the sick and the dead as sites of dirt	p. 201
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