Shopping our way to safety : how we changed from protecting the environment to protecting ourselves / / Andrew Szasz
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Szasz Andrew <1947->
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| Titolo: |
Shopping our way to safety : how we changed from protecting the environment to protecting ourselves / / Andrew Szasz
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (338 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 339.4/70973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Environmental economics - United States |
| Consumption (Economics) - United States | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-317) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Two historical case studies -- Assembling a personal commodity bubble for one's body -- Consequences of inverted quarantine. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "Not long ago, people did not worry about the food they ate. They did not worry about the water they drank or the air they breathed. It never occurred to them that eating, drinking water, satisfying basic, mundane bodily needs might be a dangerous thing to do. Parents thought it was good for their kids to go outside, get some sun. "That's all changed now." -from the Introduction Many Americans today rightly fear that they are constantly exposed to dangerous toxins in their immediate environment: tap water is contaminated with chemicals; foods contain p |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Shopping our way to safety |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-5370-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910810722503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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