Inescapable Ecologies A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge

Name: Inescapable Ecologies A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge
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ISBN: 9780520248878

ISBN-10: 0520248872

ISBN-13: 9780520248878

Edition: 2006

Authors: Linda Nash

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Among the most far-reaching effects of the modern environmental movement was the widespread acknowledgment that human beings were inescapably part of a larger ecosystem. With this book, Linda Nash gives us a wholly original and much longer history of "ecological" ideas of the body as that history unfolded in California's Central Valley. Taking us from nineteenth-century fears of miasmas and faith in wilderness cures to the recent era of chemical pollution and cancer clusters, Nash charts how Americans have connected their diseases to race and place as well as dirt and germs. In this account, the rise of germ theory and the pushing aside of an earlier environmental approach to illness…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/5/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.02" wide x 10.24" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Body and Environment in an Era of Colonization



Placing Health and Disease



Producing a Sanitary Landscape



Modern Landscapes and Ecological Bodies



Contesting the Space of Disease


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index