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One of the formative characteristics of modern life is the notion of environmental hazard. The notion derives from a separation between the realms we usually denote as the inside and the outside. In discussing environmental hazard, “inside” and “outside” can be seen as normative constructs rather than volumetric spaces: all insides share the fact that they are within their respective outsides, and all outsides share in being respective surroundings of their respective insides. But these relationships are neither tautological nor geometric. They rather reproduce a spatial imagery in which the inside has a right to be preserved from that which is outside. The historical understanding of disease in particular supported this dichotomy in considering bodily “insides” as something under the potentially hazardous influences of bodily “outsides.” Classical humoralism endorsed this dialectic in framing disease as a result of exposure to incidental circumstances related to diet, locality, season, and lifestyle.
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Janković, V. (2010). Introduction. In: Confronting the Climate. Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230113466_1
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