Diseases Have No Eyes : Valley Fever and Environmental Health Justice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rios, Sarah M.

Series:

Knowledge Unlatched (KU)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Diseases Have No Eyes investigates how communities in Central Valley, California deal with Valley Fever, a painful illness caused by a soil fungus.The airborne disease's symptoms can last from two months to a patient's lifetime and may be fatal.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Social and Climate Heat in Epidemic County

2. Healing the Path of Uncertainty

3. Fugitive Spaces in the Carceral State

4. La Vista Gorda: Reorienting the Science of Learning

5. Formations of Racial Health Projects

6. Coalitions of Care for Democratizing Medicine

Conclusion: What Has Changed?

References

Index

Photo Gallery.

Notes:

Creative Commons Licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ by-nc-nd cc

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781439925348

OCLC:

1598045056

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access