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Hazards of the job : from industrial disease to environmental health science /
"Hazards of the Job explores the roots of modern environmentalism in the early-twentieth-century United States. It was in the workplace of this era, argues Christopher Sellers, that our contemporary understanding of environmental health dangers first took shape." "Sellers traces the c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Hazards of the Job explores the roots of modern environmentalism in the early-twentieth-century United States. It was in the workplace of this era, argues Christopher Sellers, that our contemporary understanding of environmental health dangers first took shape." "Sellers traces the creation of a viable industrial hygiene expertise, focused initially on lead and other poisonings among workers, alongside the controversies that it addressed and roused."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 331 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-315) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585027293 9780585027296 0807864455 9780807864456 |