The contagious city [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of public health in early Philadelphia / / Simon Finger

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451846003321
• Autore: Finger Simon <1977->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2012
• ISBN: 0-8014-6447-1; 0-8014-6400-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (243 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.109748/11
• Soggetti: Public health - Political aspects - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 18th century; Communicable diseases - Political aspects - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 18th century; Social medicine - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 18th century; Electronic books.; Philadelphia (Pa.) Politics and government 18th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Epidemic Constitutions -- 1. "A Rude Place and an Unpolisht Man": William Penn and the Nature of Pennsylvania -- 2. "An Infancy of Government": Population, Authority, and the Problem of Proprietorship -- 3. "A Suitable Charity or an Effectual Security": Community, Contagion, and the Care of Strangers -- 4. "A Body Corporate and Politick": Association, Interest, and Improvement in a Provincial City -- 5. "Improvement in Every Part of the Healing Art": Transatlantic Cultures of Medical Improvement -- 6. "A Fine Field for Professional Improvement": Sites and Sources of Medical Authority in the Revolutionary War -- 7. "In a Yielding State": Nervous Nationalism in the New Republic -- 8. "Those Friendly Reciprocities": Panic and Participation in the Age of Yellow Fever -- 9. "A Matter of Police": Fever and Betrayal in the Federal Union -- Conclusion: Looking West from Philadelphia -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: By the time William Penn was planning the colony that would come to ; be called Pennsylvania, with Philadelphia at its heart, Europeans on both sides of the ocean had long experience with the hazards of city life, disease the most terrifying among them. Drawing from those experiences, colonists hoped to create new urban forms that combined the commercial advantages of a seaport with the health benefits of the country. The Contagious City details how early Americans struggled to preserve their collective health against both the strange new perils of the colonial environment and the familiar dangers of the traditional city, through a period of profound transformation in both politics and medicine.Philadelphia was the paramount example of this reforming tendency. Tracing the city's history from its founding on the banks of the Delaware River in 1682 to the yellow fever outbreak of 1793, Simon Finger emphasizes the importance of public health and population control in decisions made by the city's planners and leaders. He also shows that key figures in the city's history, including Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush, brought their keen interest in science and medicine into the political sphere. Throughout his account, Finger makes clear that medicine and politics were inextricably linked, and that both undergirded the debates over such crucial concerns as the city's location, its urban plan, its immigration policy, and its creation of institutions of public safety. In framing the history of Philadelphia through the imperatives of public health, The Contagious City offers a bold new vision of the urban history of colonial America.

The vvorks of the great Albionean divine, renown'd in many nations for rare skill in Salems & Athens tongues, and familiar acquaintance with all rabbinical learning, Mr. Hugh Broughton [[electronic resource] ] : collected into one volume and digested into four tomes

• Record Nr.: UNISA996389701903316
• Autore: Broughton Hugh <1549-1612.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Printed for Nath. Ekins, 1662
• Descrizione fisica: [23], 732 [i.e. 1162], [12] p. : port
• Altri autori (Persone): LightfootJohn <1602-1675.>; PrimroesW; SpeghtJames <1564-1637?>
• Soggetti: Theology - History - 17th century; Theology; Theology - History - 16th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: English and Latin.; Reproduction of original in British Library.; Includes a "preface giving some accompt of the authors life and vvritings" by the editor, John Lightfoot; "A translation of Daniel"; "The sermon preached at the funerall of Mr. Hugh Broughton" by James Speght; and "A funerall poem upon the death of Mr. Hugh Brouhton [sic]" by W. Primrose.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0018

African Agrarian Philosophy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910831006403321
• Autore: Tosam Mbih Jerome
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024; ©2023
• ISBN: 3-031-43040-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (417 pages)
• Collana: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics Series ; ; v.35
• Altri autori (Persone): MasiteraErasmus
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 Introduction: African Agrarian Philosophy -- 1.1 What is Agrarian Philosophy? -- 1.2 African Agrarian Philosophy -- 1.3 The Necessity of Studying African Agrarian Philosophy -- 1.4 Structure and Organization of the Book -- References -- Part I African Communitarian Agrarianism -- 2 Unpacking Ndebele Agrarian Metaphors for the Promotion and Preservation of Communal Social Development -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 African Indigenous Knowledge: An Overview -- 2.3 Conceptual Underpinnings -- 2.4 Methodology -- 2.5 Ndebele Agrarian Metaphors -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- 3 The Farm-Village Practice of Yorùbá in West Africa -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Indigenous Geographies: A Conceptual Approach -- 3.3 Yorùbás -- 3.4 Agrarian Practice: Nearby Farms and Outlying Farms -- 3.5 The Outlying Farm: The Farm-Village Practice -- 3.6 Farm Village Practice in Nineteenth Century Urban-Hinterland Relations: The Ibadan Experience -- 3.7 The Farm Village-An Integrated Model -- 3.8 The Farm Village-An Agrarian Thought Amongst the Yorùbá -- 3.9 Conclusion -- References -- 4 On the Confluence of Permaculture and African Agrarianism -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Permaculture Example and Potential Motivations -- 4.2.1 Example -- 4.2.2 Potential Motivations -- 4.3 African Agrarianism: Resonances -- 4.3.1 Example -- 4.3.2 Conceptual Aspects of African Agrarianism -- 4.4 The Tragedy of Centralisation: The Waste-Water Treatment Example -- 4.4.1 ; Illustration/Problem -- 4.4.2 Remedy -- 4.5 SMART Targets -- 4.6 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Dialogue Between African Agrarian Philosophy and Adam Smith on Underdevelopment and Resource Dependence in Africa -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Economics in Africa -- 5.2.1 Underdevelopment -- 5.2.2 Resource Dependence -- 5.3 Agrarian Philosophy in Africa and Adam Smith.; 5.3.1 Agrarianism, the Land and Community -- 5.3.2 Agrarianism and Development -- 5.4 Sustainable Agrarian Economics in Africa -- 5.4.1 Ethical Economics -- 5.4.2 Sectoral Development -- 5.4.3 Justice as a Relational Concept -- 5.5 Conclusion -- References -- Part II Moral Status of Non-human Nature in African Agrarian Thought -- 6 Defending a Relational Account of Moral Status -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 An Overview of Modal Relationalism -- 6.3 Weaker Objections -- 6.4 Charges of Incompleteness -- 6.5 Charges of Elitism -- 6.6 Concluding Statements on Remaining Concerns -- References -- 7 The Phenomenon of Male and Female Crops in Igbo Agrarian Culture: Implication for Gender Equality -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Concept of Gender Equality -- 7.3 Male and Female Crops in Igbo Agrarian Culture: The Praxis, the Myth and Ritualization -- 7.4 The Metaphysics of Gendering Crops in Igbo Agrarian Culture -- 7.5 Male and Female Crops: Implications for Gender Equality -- 7.6 Conclusion -- References -- 8 The Religious Significance of Mushrooms Among the Shona People of Zimbabwe: An Ethnomycological Approach -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 A Conceptual Understanding of Wild Mushroom in African Religious Traditions (ARTs) -- 8.3 Human-Mushroom Relationship in Indigenous Communities: An Enduring Ecocentric Heritage -- 8.4 The Indigenous Shona People Understand Wild Mushroom as a Vehicle of Indigenous Soteriology -- 8.5 Discussion and Ethical Implications of the Study Findings -- 8.6 Conclusion -- References -- Part III African Agrarianism and Environmental Ethics -- 9 The Consubstantiality of Living Things: Towards a Mandingo Cosmo-Anthropocentric Ethics -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 On the Consubstantiality of the Elements of the Cosmos -- 9.3 The Reaction of Nature in Relation to Human Attempts at Omnipotence -- 9.4 Cosmo-Anthropocentric Ethics.; 9.5 Equality of the Moral Value of All Living Things -- 9.6 The Principle of the Universal Connection of All Living Things -- 9.7 The Principle of the Necessity for the Preservation of All for the Protection of Each Other -- 9.8 Conclusion -- References -- 10 Ɨwu-ɨ-Kom-ɨ-Twal: Kom Agrarian-Environmental Ethics -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 The Triadic Worldview as the Basis of Kom Agrarian-Environmental Thought -- 10.3 Wayn (Child (ren)) -- 10.4 Afo-aghina (Food) -- 10.5 Nyamngvin (Communal flourishing/Welfare) -- 10.6 Kom Agrarian-Environmental Ethics -- 10.7 Traditional Authorities and the Enforcement of Agrarian-Environmental Values -- 10.7.1 Agrarian Rituals and Environmental Protection in Kom Culture -- 10.8 Kom Agrarian-Environmental Ethics and Obligations to Future Generations -- 10.9 Conclusion -- References -- 11 Land Ethics Among the Traditional Annangs of Southern Nigeria: Traditional Environmental Ethics, Challenging Contemporary Hostilities Towards Our planet -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 African Environmental Ethics -- 11.3 The Annangs and the Environment -- 11.4 The Annang Worldview -- 11.5 The Upper Ether -- 11.6 The Lower Ether -- 11.7 The Land of the Dead -- 11.8 Nature -- 11.9 Nature is Sacred -- 11.10 The Mother Earth -- 11.11 Critical Evaluation, Proposals and Conclusion -- 11.12 The Hazardous Divorce from Nature -- 11.13 Proposals -- 11.14 Conclusion -- References -- 12 Shangwe Environmental Ethics: A Panacea for Agrarian Problems in Gokwe -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Agrarian ; History and Land Reform in Zimbabwe -- 12.3 Agrarian Problems in Gokwe Region: A Menace in the Shangwe Communities -- 12.4 Environmental Ethics as a Prescription for Agrarian Problems in Gokwe -- 12.5 Shangwe Environmental Ethics and Water Conservation -- 12.6 Conclusion -- References.; 13 Agrarian Rituals, Food Security and Environmental Conservation in the Bamenda Grassfields of Cameroon -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 The Setting: Landscape, People and Worldview -- 13.3 Rituals and the Control of Ecological and Weather Conditions -- 13.4 Annual Planting Rituals -- 13.5 Harvest Celebration Rituals: Evidence of Food Security -- 13.6 Environmental Preservation -- 13.7 Conclusion -- References -- 14 Indigenous African Eco-communitarian Agrarian Philosophy: Lessons on Environmental Conservation and Sustainability from the Nsoq Culture of North West Cameroon -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 A Brief History of the Nsoq People -- 14.3 The Geographical Location -- 14.4 The Nsoq Worldview -- 14.5 The Nsoq Concept of Nature -- 14.6 The Relationship Between Man and Nature -- 14.7 The Nsoq Concept of Man as a Being-With-Others -- 14.8 The Eco-bio-communitarian Dimension of Farming in Nsoq -- 14.9 The Nsoq Farming Ethics -- 14.10 Conservative and Sustainable Elements of Nsoq Agrarian Ethics -- 14.11 Conclusion -- References -- Part IV Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Agrarianism, and Higher Education -- 15 The Emergence of a Re-humanizing Pedagogy for African Agrarian Philosophy -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 The Need for a Re-humanising Pedagogy -- 15.3 In Practice: A Two-Week Training by the African Learning Institute -- 15.3.1 Story Telling: Starting from People's Own Stories -- 15.3.2 Elders Panel: Reviving Indigenous Knowledge -- 15.3.3 Spiritual Practices: Burning Ritual and Connecting with the Ancestral-World of the Living-Dead -- 15.3.4 Community Visits and Residential Program -- 15.3.5 Evaluation, Post-training Activities and Challenges -- 15.4 Exploring a Re-humanising Pedagogy for African Agrarian Philosophy -- 15.4.1 An African Agrarian Philosophy with Memory -- 15.4.2 A Dialogical Student-Teacher Relation.; 15.4.3 The Value of Lived Experiences -- 15.4.4 Relationality with Human Beings and Mother Earth -- 15.4.5 Intergenerational and Spiritual Methods of Education -- 15.4.6 Unity Between Theory and Practice -- 15.4.7 Critical Consciousness About People's Rights -- 15.5 Concluding Remarks -- Appendix -- References -- 16 African Endogenous Knowledge and Sustainable Development: Evolving an African Agrarian Philosophy -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Conceptual Labyrinth -- 16.3 African Ecological Knowledge System -- 16.4 African Endogenous Knowledge and Modern Scientific Knowledge -- 16.5 A Maze of African Agrarianism -- 16.6 Tiv (Nigerian) Agrarian Practices -- 16.7 The Evolution of African Agrarian Philosophy -- 16.8 Conclusion -- References -- 17 The Shona People's 'Zunde raMambo' (King's Granary) as a Model for Social Responsibility: A Task for Higher Education Systems -- 17.1 Introduction -- 17.2 Who Are the Shona People, and What is 'Zunde raMambo'? -- 17.3 Justifying Reviving Zunde raMambo in Contemporary Educational Discourse -- 17.4 Ethical Implications of 'Zunde raMambo' -- 17.5 Educational Lessons -- 17.6 How Higher Education May Achieve the Expectations -- 17.7 Conclusion -- References -- 18 The Practice of African Indigenous Medicine and Agrarianism in Madamombe Area (Chivi District-Zimbabwe) -- 18.1 Introduction -- 18.2 Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Traditional Institutions and Agrarianism -- 18.3 African Indigenous Medicine and Agrarianism -- 18.4 Crop Management: Planting, Enhancing, Protecting, and Postharvest Storage -- 18.5 The ; Future of the Use of AIM in Agriculture -- 18.6 Conclusion -- References -- Part V Contemporary Agrarian Issues in Africa -- 19 Henry Odera Oruka's Parental Earth Ethics as Ethics of Duty: Towards Ecological Fairness and Global Justice -- 19.1 Introduction: Philosophy Must Be Made Sagacious.; 19.2 Grounding African Agrarian Philosophy on Oruka's Parental Earth Ethics.