Main entry:

Murphy, Michelle (Claudette Michelle)

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2006.

Description:

x, 253 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-240) and index.
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.
Also issued online.

Summary:

This is a detailed history of how sick building syndrome came into being: how indoor exposures to chemicals wafting from synthetic carpet, solvents, and so on became something that office workers felt and protested against.

Resources:
ebrary
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0822336596 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780822336594 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0822336715 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780822336716 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Sick building syndrome United States History.
Indoor air pollution Health aspects.
Buildings Health aspects.
Sick Building Syndrome history
Air Pollution, Indoor
Syndrome des bâtiments malsains États-Unis Histoire.
Air intérieur Pollution Aspect sanitaire.
Constructions Aspect sanitaire.
Sick building syndrome
Sozialgeschichte
Geschlechterforschung
Sick-building-Syndrom
Krankheitsbild
Arbeitsplatz
Raumklima
United States
USA

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269494
Call No.: RA577.5 .M87 2006
Status: External loan