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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sellers, Christopher C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1997.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: A Source for Silent Spring
  • White City's Ghosts
  • The Progressive Allure of the Worker's Ills
  • A Public and Constructive Knowledge
  • A Faltering Dream of Expertise
  • Pax Toxicologica
  • The Environmental Turn
  • Conclusion: Ordering Toxicity from the Workplace to the Environment.