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