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

Name: Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers
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ISBN: 9780822336716

ISBN-10: 0822336715

ISBN-13: 9780822336716

Edition: 2006

Authors: Michelle Murphy

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Before 1980, sick building syndrome did not exist. By the 1990s, it was among the most commonly investigated occupational health problems in the United States. Afflicted by headaches, rashes, and immune system disorders, office workers--mostly women--protested that their workplaces were filled with toxic hazards; yet federal investigators could detect no chemical cause. This richly detailed history tells the story of how sick building syndrome came into being: how indoor exposures to chemicals wafting from synthetic carpet, ink, adhesive, solvents, and so on became something that relatively privileged Americans worried over, felt, and ultimately sought to do something about. As Michelle…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 2/22/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.20" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



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


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index