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Inescapable ecologies : a history of environment, disease, and knowledge /

Among the most far-reaching effects of the modern environmental movement was the widespread acknowledgment that human beings were inescapably part of a larger ecosystem. With this book, Linda Nash gives us a wholly original and much longer history of "ecological" ideas of the body as that...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nash, Linda Lorraine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Body and environment in an era of colonization
  • Placing health and disease
  • Producing a sanitary landscape
  • Modern landscapes and ecological bodies
  • Contesting the space of disease
  • Conclusion.