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Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty : Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers /

An account of sick building syndrome and the large number of historical conditions--office worker protests, feminism, ventilation engineering, toxicology, etc.--that coalesced to give this phenomenon real existence.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Murphy, Michelle (Claudette Michelle) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Man in a box: building-machines and the science of comfort
  • Building ladies into the office machine
  • Feminism, surveys, and toxic details
  • Indoor pollution at the encounter of toxicology and popular epidemiology
  • Uncertainty, race, and activism at the EPA
  • Building ecologies, tobacco, and the politics of multiplicity
  • How to build yourself a body in a safe space.