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Sick building syndrome and the problem of uncertainty : environmental politics, technoscience, and women workers / Michelle Murphy.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection Pre-2008 Archive Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Murphy, Michelle (Claudette Michelle)
Series:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Sick building syndrome--United States--History.
Sick building syndrome.
Indoor air pollution--Health aspects.
Indoor air pollution.
Buildings--Health aspects.
Buildings.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (265 p.)
Place of Publication:
Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2006.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
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.
Contents:
Man in a box: building-machines and the science of comfort
Building ladies into the office machine
Feminism, surveys, and toxic details
Indoor pollution at the encounter of toxicology and popular epidemiology
Uncertainty, race, and activism at the EPA
Building ecologies, tobacco, and the politics of multiplicity
How to build yourself a body in a safe space.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-240) and index.
ISBN:
9780822387831
0822387832
OCLC:
608430663

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