On the Relations of Hygiene History and Environmental History Focusing on Modern China History
Abstract
Health history and environmental history, not only in quite the same research interests, but also in research content, there are big intersection, the history of health concerns is also a large part of the history of environmental research. However, this does not mean that you can include in the environmental health history into history, but that the environmental study of the history, the cut from the health point of view to explore the history of man and nature relationship, when the study is an effective path. In addition to proximity on the content and purport of reason, but also because of the history from the perspective of health, to promote environmental history in depth and further integration into the international mainstream academic quite helpful, and health history from the perspective of our building a harmonious and healthy development of the ecological environment to provide some deep thinking. The hygiene history is same as the environmental history not only on their objectives but also with some contents. However, it does not mean that the hygiene history could be regarded as one part of the environmental history but it would be an effective way for environmental history to study the relations of human beings and the nature from the perspectives of hygiene history, which is helpful to provide some deep thinking to construct harmonious ecological environment