“Dirt, death and disease” : newspaper discourses on public health in the construction of the modern British city
(2014)
Journal Article
O'Reilly, C. (2014). “Dirt, death and disease” : newspaper discourses on public health in the construction of the modern British city. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 15(2), 207-227. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.15.2.04ore
This study makes use of a range of local and national British newspapers and periodicals to examine the discourses of public health during the nineteenth century. It argues that many newspapers and periodicals used a very limited and limiting discour... Read More about “Dirt, death and disease” : newspaper discourses on public health in the construction of the modern British city.