Spheres is a wildly eclectic work; the third part, on foam (Schäume), is full of reflections on such topics as the vitreous dreamland of the Great Exhibition, the Victorian invention of the concept of environment, the deployment of poison gas during the first world war and the geodesic domes of Buckminster Fuller.
Talking about the concept of "environment" means treating a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary theme which revives a simultaneous consideration of multiple data social, economic, natural.
It is argued that science curriculum in their current situation in Saudi Arabia do not achieve the objective of teaching basic concepts related to enhanced concept of environment or understanding relationships of interaction between man and environment.
The interviewees who had post graduate academic education seemed to view the concept of environment at a more abstract level.
In the face of these trends, and given the evolution of the concept of "environment" as it pertains to health, what, then, is "environmental medicine"?
The nurses experienced that the detailed questions helped them to broaden the concept of environment and dialogues with parents were more open and honest than in unstructured discussions.
Chopoorian [ 10] argues that the concept of environment is not analyzed as social landscape, as geography, and lacks the archaeology of the social, political, and economic worlds that influence clients states and nursing roles.
This concept of environment shaping phenotype has been appreciated for centuries, before the discovery of genetics, and is exemplified by two now-popular concepts: the thrifty phenotype hypothesis (Barker 2006) and the developmental origins of health and disease (Gluckman and Hanson 2004).
Clearly, as the concept of "environment" evolves from the traditional notions of hazards to the built, social, and cultural environments on several scales, it has expanded or created new interfaces with the fields of individual and social behavior, psychology, sociology, ecology, land use, architecture, and other disciplines.
Chopoorian [ 10] was the first to suggest a broader conceptualization of the concept of environment and later Stevens [ 9] builds on Chopoorian's work and offers up critical social theory as one approach to broadening nursing theory in relation to environment.
