Intermediate technology Books

Book SynopsisThis book covers the public health, technical, socioeconomic, sociocultural and institutional aspects of sanitation in towns and cities of developing countries. The text features excreta-related diseases and the use of sanitation to reduce their transmission. The sanitation technologies covered in detail are VIP latrines, pour-flush toilets, septic tanks, settled sewerage and simplified sewerage, with additional chapters on sullage disposal, pit emptying, and sewage treatment and reuse. Sociocultural constraints on sanitation systems and their socioeconomic costing are described, together with hygiene education, which is essential in order to achieve maximum benefits to health. The text also explains how to choose the most appropriate sanitation option for a given low-income community. Finally, institutional aspects are reviewed, including effective sanitation programme planning, monitoring and evaluation.Table of ContentsUrban Sanitation Needs. Sanitation and Health. Ventilated Improved Pit Latrines. Pour-Flush Toilets. Sullage Disposal. Septic Tanks. Emptying. Settled Sewerage. Simplified Sewerage. Sewage Treatment. Sociocultural Aspects. Socioeconomic Aspects. Technology Selection and Upgrading. Hygiene Education. Institutional Aspects. Index.

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Book SynopsisWill we ever be able to see the brain at work? Could it be possible to observe thinking and feeling as if watching a live broadcast from within the human head? Brainmedia uncovers past and present examples of scientists and science educators who conceptualize and demonstrate the active human brain guided by new media technologies: from exhibitions of giant illuminated brain models and staged projections of brainwave recordings to live televised brain broadcasts, brains hooked up to computers and experiments with brain-to-brain synchronization.Drawing on archival material, Brainmedia outlines a new history of live brains, arguing that practices ofand ideas aboutmediation impacted the imagination of seeing the brain at work. By combining accounts of scientists examining brains in laboratories with examples of public demonstrations and exhibitions of brain research, Brainmedia casts new light on popularization practices, placing them at the heart of scientific work.Trade ReviewWith Brainmedia Flora Lysen offers fascinating insights on the interplay of technology and experience, mediation and presence, discourse and politics that go far beyond the history of neuroscience: In pursuit of a critical understanding of the phenomena, Flora Lysen engages with brain research as current predicament and provides her readers with an engaging media-philosophical perspective. * Cornelius Borck, Institute for History of Medicine and Science Studies, University of Lübeck, Germany, and author of Brainwaves: A Cultural History of Electroencephalography *Combining media and science studies, this brilliant book shows how the 20th century turned the brain into an epistemic spectacle. It reconstructs the curves, projectors and screen technologies that were used for publicly displaying the living brain at work. By the same token, it critically questions our drive to create and consume “time images” of the cerebral that highlight liveliness, transparency and immediacy. The result is a compelling account of the brain as a medium and message firmly tied to the power and time relations of modern culture. * Henning Schmidgen, Professor of Media Studies, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany *Table of ContentsTable of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Birth of the Live Brain, 1820-1920 2. Displaying Dynamic Brains: Illuminated Brain Models and the Enchanted Loom, 1928-1938 3. Demonstrating Brainwaves Beyond the Laboratory: EEG as White Magic and Dark Media, 1934-1941 4. Broadcasting Live Brains: The Brain on Television and as Television, 1949-1957 5. Interfacing the Real-Time Brain: EEG Feedback in Art and Science, 1964-1977 6. Synchronizing Two Dynamic Brains: Art-Science Experiments and Neuroscience in the Wild, 2013-2019 Conclusion Bibliography List of Sources of Figures Index

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