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