Sick building syndrome and the problem of uncertainty
Subtitle: environmental politics, technoscience, and women workers
By: Michelle Murphy.
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Sick building syndrome -- United States -- History; Indoor air pollution -- Health aspects; Buildings -- Health aspects; Sick Building Syndrome -- history -- United States; Air Pollution, Indoor -- United States
Description: This is a detailed history of how sick building syndrome came into being: how indoor exposures to chemicals wafting from synthetic carpet, solvents, and so on became something that office workers felt and protested against.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Man in a box: building-machines and the science of comfort; title: Building ladies into the office machine; title: Feminism, surveys, and toxic details; title: Indoor pollution at the encounter of toxicology and popular epidemiology; title: Uncertainty, race, and activism at the EPA; title: Building ecologies, tobacco, and the politics of multiplicity; title: How to build yourself a body in a safe space.