Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty - Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers

Informationen zum Autor M. Murphy is Assistant Professor in the History Department and the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Klappentext An account of sick building syndrome and the large number of historical conditions--office worker protests, feminism, ventilation engineering, toxicology, etc.--that coalesced to give this phenomenon real existence. Zusammenfassung A detailed history of how sick building syndrome came into being: how indoor exposures to chemicals wafting from synthetic carpet! solvents! and so on became something that office workers felt and protested against Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Man in a Box: Building-Machines and the Science of Comfort 19 2. Building Ladies into the Office Machine 35 3. Feminism, Surveys, and Toxic Details 57 4. Indoor Pollution at the Encounter of Toxicology and Popular Epidemiology 81 5. Uncertainty, Race, and Activism at the EPA 111 6. Building Ecologies, Tobacco, and the Politics of Multiplicity 131 7. How to Build Yourself a Body in a Safe Space 151 Epilogue 179 Bibliography 181 Notes 213 Index 241

Product details

• Authors: M. Murphy, Michelle Murphy
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.02.2006
• EAN: 9780822336594
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3659-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories