Fatal Isolation : The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003 /

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In a cemetery on the southern outskirts of Paris lie the bodies of nearly a hundred of what some have called the first casualties of global climate change. They were the so-called abandoned victims of the worst natural disaster in French history, the devastating heat wave that struck in August 2003,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Keller, Richard C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Temas:
Disaster victims > France > Paris.
Heat waves (Meteorology) > France > Paris > History > 21st century.
Natural disasters > France > Paris > History > 21st century.
HISTORY / General.
heat wave, climate change, global warming, natural disaster, paris, france, death, suffering, isolation, aging, urban, risk, vulnerability, social marginalization, old age, epidemiology, space, place, mortality, nonfiction, history, science, sociology, cholera epidemic, architecture, city, medicine, public health, extreme weather, immigrants, refugees, urbanization, dehumanization, aged, environmental catastrophes, remembering, forgetting, memory, legacy.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Stories, Suffering, and the State: The Heat Wave and Narratives of Disaster
  • 2. Anecdotal Life: Isolation, Vulnerability, and Social Marginalization
  • 3. Place Matters: Mortality, Space, and Urban Form
  • 4. Vulnerability and the Political Imagination: Constructing Old Age in Postwar France
  • 5. Counting the Dead: Risk and the Limits of Epidemiology
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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