Readings in Human Ecology Jack Bresler

Ecology readings from the University of Wisconsin

Human Ecology: Industrial Ecology

Industrial Ecology aims to inform decision making about the environmental impacts of industrial production processes by tracking and analyzing resource use and flows of industrial products, consumer products and wastes. Quantifying the patterns of use of materials and energy in different societies is one area of research in Industrial Ecology. An extensive literature is devoted in particular to...

Further Readings Further Readings

“Baby Bollinger” (first name: Allen) was born to Anna and Allen Bollinger at the German-American Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The seven-pound Baby Bollinger was diagnosed with multiple physical anomalies and became the first victim in a string of public infanticides of disabled babies committed by the head of staff at the hospital, Dr. Harry Haiselden. The doctor declared Baby Bollinger a “mo...

Society for Human Ecology Human Ecology Review

Food, ecology and culture. Readings in the anthropology of dietary practices

PHILIP M. TEIGEN (editor), Books, manuscripts, and the history of medicine. Essays on the 50th anniversary of the Osler Library, New York, Science History Publications, 1982, 8vo, pp. [viii], 112, $14.95. On 29 May 1929, The Osler Library was dedicated and accepted by the Principal, Sir Arthur Currie, on behalf of McGill University. It was fitting that fifty years later a group of Oslerolators ...