Fatal isolation : the devastating Paris heat wave of 2003 /

Richard C. Keller is professor in the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and editor of Unconscious Dominions: Psychoanalysis, C...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Keller, Richard C. (Richard Charles), 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2015].
Temas:
2000-2099
Natural disasters > France > Paris > History > 21st century.
Heat waves (Meteorology) > France > Paris > History > 21st century.
Disaster victims > France > Paris.
Catastrophes naturelles > France > Paris > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Vagues de chaleur > France > Paris > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Victimes de catastrophes > France > Paris.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Disaster victims.
Heat waves (Meteorology)
Natural disasters.
Paris (France) > History > 21st century.
Paris (France) > Histoire > 21e siècle.
France > Paris.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Stories, suffering, and the state : the heat wave and narratives of disaster
  • Anecdotal life : isolation, vulnerability, and social marginalization
  • Place matters : mortality, space, and urban form
  • Vulnerability and the political imagination : constructing old age in postwar France
  • Counting the dead : risk and the limits of epidemiology.

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