The King of Dirt: Public Health and Sanitation in Late Medieval Ghent
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Taking the office of the coninc der ribauden in Ghent as a case-study, this article reconstructs the enforcement of urban sanitation and preventative health practices during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The coninc managed a wide range of issues perceived as potentially polluting, damaging or threateningto health. Banning waste and chasing pigs as well as prostitutes off the streets, the office implemented a governmental vision on communal well-being. Health interests, as part of a broader pursuit of the common good, therefore played an important yet hitherto largely overlooked role in medieval urban governance.
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Defining the Scope of Public Engagement: Examining the “Right Not to Know” in Public Health Genomics
2014 ◽
Vol 42
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pp. 11-18
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2021 ◽
pp. 0306624X2110668
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2018 ◽
Vol 38
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pp. 331-340
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2003 ◽
Vol 30
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pp. 771-788
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