Better than nature: the changing treatment of asthma and hay fever in the United States, 1910–1945

Keirns, Carla C.

doi:10.1016/s1369-8486(03)00048-7

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“…Trees and grasses belong to the most important allergen sources, both because of their worldwide distribution and because of their heavy pollen production. The importance of plant pollen as a potent allergen source has been recognized for the past about one hundred years through the examination of the relationship between pollen exposure and allergic symptoms [ 1 , 2 ]. Most of the important plant pollen allergens have been produced as recombinant allergens for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.…”

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Characterization of Pollen Dispersion in the Neighborhood of Tokyo, Japan in the Spring of 2005 and 2006

Ishibashi

Ohno

Oh‐ishi

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The behavior of Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) and Japanese cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa) pollens in an urban area was examined through the measurements of the dispersion characteristics at the various sampling locations in both outdoor and indoor environments. Airborne pollens were counted continuously for three months during the Japanese cedar pollen and Japanese cypress seasons in 2005 and 2006 by the use of Durham’s pollen trap method in and around Tokyo, Japan. The dispersion of pollens at the rooftop of Kyoritsu Women’s University was observed to be at extremely high levels in 2005 compared with previously reported results during the past two decades. As for Japanese cedar pollen, the maximum level was observed as 440 counts cm−2 day−1 on 18 March 2005. Japanese cypress pollen dispersed in that area in the latter period was compared with the Japanese cedar pollen dispersions. The maximum dispersion level was observed to be 351 counts cm−2 day−1 on 7 April 2005. Total accumulated dispersions of Japanese cedar and Japanese cypress pollens were 5,552 and 1,552 counts cm−2 for the three months (Feb., Mar. and Apr.) in 2005, respectively. However, the dispersion of both pollens in 2006 was very low. The total accumulated dispersions of Japanese cedar and Japanese cypress pollens were 421 and 98 counts cm−2 for three months (Feb., Mar. and Apr.) in 2006, respectively. Moreover, the pollen deposition on a walking person in an urban area showed that the pollen counts on feet were observed to be extremely high compared with the ones on the shoulder, back and legs. These findings suggested that pollen fell on the surface of the paved road at first, rebounded to the ambient air and was deposited on the residents again. Furthermore, the regional distribution of the total pollen dispersion in the South Kanto area was characterized on 15–16 March 2005 and on 14–15 March 2006. Although the pollen levels in 2005 were much higher than in 2006, it was commonly observed that higher pollen counts existed in the outlying areas. That is, the pollen counts in an urban area were confirmed to be at a lower level. As for the indoor dispersion of pollens, two cases were evaluated. At the lobby of the main building of Kyoritsu Women’s University, the averaged ratio of the indoor to the outdoor pollen count is 4.1%. Another case was at the hospital building of a medical school. The pollen dispersion in the indoor environment was also observed to be low. It was concluded that the indoor pollen would be mainly carried from the outer environment by the movement of air.

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Characterization of Pollen Dispersion in the Neighborhood of Tokyo, Japan in the Spring of 2005 and 2006

Ishibashi

Ohno

Oh‐ishi

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“…Ads promised that cool air could be had (for a price) within the hermetically sealed modern home, thereby keeping pollen away from those with susceptible constitutions. Carla Keirns (2003) goes on to connect marketing tactics surrounding allergy to the subliminal ideal of the mid-century American home as a zone of hygienic purity. Professionals including allergists, homebuilders, architects, and reformers "joined together to create a new aesthetic of absolute cleanliness" as a proposed solution to the condition (Keirns, 2003, p. 524).…”

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“…Controlling the home environment also became a key strategy for managing allergy, particularly respiratory allergy (Jackson, 2006). By the 1930s, the acquisition of specially marketed consumer goods was positioned as a solution to managing the disease that was attainable by the middle classes as well as the rich (Mitman, 2007;Keirns, 2003).…”

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Food Allergies and the Hygienic Sublime

Glabau¹

2019

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People living with food allergies in the United States use a variety of strategies to ensure that their food and homes are clean, free of allergens, and therefore safe for their specific needs. Yet the pursuit of purity is not merely a practical or material matter, but a semiotic one as well, and it is shaped by histories of race, gender, class, and family structure in the United States. I call this material-semiotic configuration of purity the hygienic sublime. The hygienic sublime relies upon and reproduces social norms and hierarchies concerning gendered labor in the home, racialized expectations of who can be considered pure, class anxieties expressed through aspirational consumption, and normative family structure. Written against the backdrop of resurgent debates concerning sexual, national, and personal purity in the second decade of the 21st century, this paper demonstrates the broader historical and political stakes of purity politics, especially when they are centered around caretaking activities in the private space of the home.

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To Place or Not to Place: Toward an Environmental History of Modern Medicine

Sellers¹

2018

Bulletin of the History of Medicine

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Reviewing recent, overlapping work by historians of medicine and health and of environmental history, this article proposes a further agenda upon which scholars in both fields may converge. Both environmental and medical historians can seek to understand the past two centuries of medical history in terms of a seesaw dialogue over the ways and means by which physicians and other health professionals did, and did not, consider the influence of place-airs and waters included-on disease. Modernizing and professionalizing as well as new styles of science nourished attendant aspirations for a clinical place neutrality, for a medicine in which patients' own places didn't matter to what doctors thought or did. The rise of place neutrality from the late nineteenth century onward also had close and enabling historical ties to the near-simultaneous formation of place-defined specialties-tropical medicine, bacteriological public health, and industrial medicine and hygiene.

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Better than nature: the changing treatment of asthma and hay fever in the United States, 1910–1945

Cited by 4 publications

References 34 publications

Characterization of Pollen Dispersion in the Neighborhood of Tokyo, Japan in the Spring of 2005 and 2006

Characterization of Pollen Dispersion in the Neighborhood of Tokyo, Japan in the Spring of 2005 and 2006

Food Allergies and the Hygienic Sublime

To Place or Not to Place: Toward an Environmental History of Modern Medicine

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