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This book explores the social origins of the Western preoccupation with health and environmental hazards. It looks at the rise of the dichotomy between the vulnerable ´in´ and the threatening ´out´ by examining the pathologies associated with weather, domestic space, ventilation, clothing, and travel in Britain at the turn of the 19th century.

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Exposed and Vulnerable Cursed by Comfort Artificial Airs Intimate Climates The Choice of Air

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´...fascinating book...overall this is an original and informative addition to the historical literature on health and environment.´ - Stephen Mosley, Leeds Metropolitan University, Social History of Medicine

´Thought-provoking By showing the extensive links between ideas of bodies, comfort, risk, and moral behavior, Jankovic has ensured a more complicated discussion of modern environmental thought.´ - The History of Science Society

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VLADIMIR JANKOVIC Wellcome Research Lecturer in the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester, UK.

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