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



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Autore: Nash Linda Lorraine Visualizza persona
Titolo: Inescapable ecologies : a history of environment, disease, and knowledge / / Linda Nash Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (348 p.)
Disciplina: 614.4/2794
Soggetto topico: Medical geography - California - History
Environmental health - California - History
Public health - California - History
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Body And Environment In An Era Of Colonization -- 2. Placing Health And Disease -- 3. Producing A Sanitary Landscape -- 4. Modern Landscapes And Ecological Bodies -- 5. Contesting The Space Of Disease -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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 history unfolded in California's Central Valley. Taking us from nineteenth-century fears of miasmas and faith in wilderness cures to the recent era of chemical pollution and cancer clusters, Nash charts how Americans have connected their diseases to race and place as well as dirt and germs. In this account, the rise of germ theory and the pushing aside of an earlier environmental approach to illness constituted not a clear triumph of modern biomedicine but rather a brief period of modern amnesia. As Nash shows us, place-based accounts of illness re-emerged in the postwar decades, galvanizing environmental protest against smog and toxic chemicals. Carefully researched and richly conceptual, Inescapable Ecologies brings critically important insights to the histories of environment, culture, and public health, while offering a provocative commentary on the human relationship to the larger world.
Titolo autorizzato: Inescapable ecologies  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9786611752521
0-520-93999-9
1-281-75252-5
1-60129-529-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910811347703321
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