Title & Author:

Landscapes of exposure : knowledge and illness in modern environments / edited by Gregg Mitman, Michelle Murphy, and Christopher Sellers.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : History of Science Society, 2004.

Description:

vi, 304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Series:

Osiris : a research journal devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences, 0369-7827 ; Second series, volume 19

Notes:
Cover title.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: a cloud over history / Gregg Mitman, Michelle Murphey, Christopher Sellers -- Ecologies of complexity: tropical environments, African trypanosomiasis, and the science of disease control strategies in British Colonial Africa, 1900-1940 / Helen Tilley -- Natural histories of infectious disease: ecological vision in Twentieth-Century biomedical science / Warwick Anderson -- The scale politics of emerging diseases / Nicholas B. King -- Gender and the economy of health on the Santa Fe Trail / Conevery Bolton Valencis -- Geographies of hope: mining the frontiers of health in Denver and beyond, 1870-1965 / Gregg Mitman -- Living is for everyone: border crossings for community, environment, and health / Giovanna di Chiro -- Mapping a zoonotic disease: Anglo-American efforts to control bovine tuberculosis before World War I / Susan Jones -- Clever microbes: bacteriology and sanitary technology in Manchester and Chicago during the progressive age / Harold Platt -- Harold Knapp and the geography of normal controversy: radioiodine in the historical environment / Scott Kirsch -- The artificial nature of fluoridated water: between nations, knowledge, and material flows / Christopher Sellers -- The Fruits of ill-health: pesticides and workers' bodies in post-World War II California / Linda Nash -- Poisoned food, poisoned uniforms, and anthrax, or, how guerillas die in war / Luise White -- Oral history, subjectivity and environmental reality: occupational health histories in Twentieth-Century Scotland / Ronnie Johnston and Arthur McIvor -- The work of illness: the science and politics of Chernobyl-exposed populations / Adriana Petryna -- Uncertain exposures and the privilege of imperception: activist scientists and race at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / Michelle Murphy -- From Bhopal to the informating of environmentalism: risk communication in historical perspective / Kim Fortun.

Summary:

Bringing together historians of science and medicine with environmental historians and adding more contemporary vantage points from geography, anthropology and sociology, this book shows how scientists and lay people have generated methods for connecting health and place, disease and ecology, calculation and risk.

Resources:
Available from JSTOR,

ISBN:

0226532496 (hardcover)
9780226532493 (hardcover)
0226532518 (paperback)
9780226532516 (paperback)

Subject:

Environmental health History.
Human ecology.
Diseases History.
Communicable diseases History.
Epidemiology History.
Pollution Health aspects History.
Écologie humaine.
Maladies Histoire.
Maladies infectieuses Histoire.
Épidémiologie Histoire.
human ecology.
Communicable diseases.
Diseases.
Environmental health.
Epidemiology.
Pollution Health aspects.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Mitman, Gregg editor.
Murphy, Michelle (Claudette Michelle), editor.
Sellers, Christopher C. editor.
Osiris (Bruges, Belgium) ; 2nd ser., v. 19,

Knowledge and illness in modern environments

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293692
Call No.: BIB 238818
Status: Available