Description: Further DetailsTitle: Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of UncertaintyCondition: NewSubtitle: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women WorkersISBN-10: 0822336715EAN: 9780822336716ISBN: 9780822336716Publisher: Duke University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/22/2006Description: Before 1980, sick building syndrome did not exist. By the 1990s, it was among the most commonly investigated occupational health problems in the United States. Afflicted by headaches, rashes, and immune system disorders, office workers—mostly women—protested that their workplaces were filled with toxic hazards; yet federal investigators could detect no chemical cause. This richly detailed history tells the story of how sick building syndrome came into being: how indoor exposures to chemicals wafting from synthetic carpet, ink, adhesive, solvents, and so on became something that relatively privileged Americans worried over, felt, and ultimately sought to do something about. As M. Murphy shows, sick building syndrome provides a window into how environmental politics moved indoors. Sick building syndrome embodied a politics of uncertainty that continues to characterize contemporary American environmental debates. Murphy explores the production of uncertainty by juxtaposing multiple histories, each of which explains how an expert or lay tradition made chemical exposures perceptible or imperceptible, existent or nonexistent. They show how uncertainty emerged from a complex confluence of feminist activism, office worker protests, ventilation engineering, toxicology, popular epidemiology, corporate science, and ecology. In an illuminating case study, she reflects on EPA scientists’ efforts to have their headquarters recognized as a sick building. Murphy brings all of these histories together in what is not only a thorough account of an environmental health problem but also a much deeper exploration of the relationship between history, materiality, and uncertainty. Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 156mmGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Gender Sex & Relationships, Social Sciences, Science Nature & MathItem Weight: 408gAuthor: M. MurphyRelease Year: 2006 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty
Title: Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty
Subtitle: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers
ISBN-10: 0822336715
EAN: 9780822336716
ISBN: 9780822336716
Release Date: 02/22/2006
Release Year: 2006
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Science Nature & Math
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Name: Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty : Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Labor & Industrial Relations, Buildings / General, Industrial Health & Safety, Women's Studies, Occupational & Industrial Medicine
Publication Year: 2006
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: M. Murphy
Subject Area: Political Science, Architecture, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Science, Medical
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Perfect
