Landscapes of exposure
Subtitle: knowledge and illness in modern environments
By: edited by Gregg Mitman, Michelle Murphy, and Christopher Sellers.
Contributors: Mitman, Gregg.; Murphy, Michelle; Sellers, Christopher C.
Series: Osiris -- 2nd ser., v. 19; Osiris (Bruges, Belgium) -- 2nd ser., v. 19.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Environmental health -- History; Human ecology; Diseases -- History; Communicable diseases -- History; Epidemiology -- History; Pollution -- Health aspects -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a cloud over history -- Gregg Mitman, Michelle Murphey, Christopher Sellers; title: Ecologies of complexity: tropical environments, African trypanosomiasis, and the science of disease control strategies in British Colonial Africa, 1900-1940 -- Helen Tilley; title: Natural histories of infectious disease: ecological vision in Twentieth-Century biomedical science -- Warwick Anderson; title: The scale politics of emerging diseases -- Nicholas B. King; title: Gender and the economy of health on the Santa Fe Trail -- Conevery Bolton Valenčius; title: Geographies of hope: mining the frontiers of health in Denver and beyond, 1870-1965 -- Gregg Mitman; title: Living is for everyone: border crossings for community, environment, and health -- Giovanna di Chiro; title: Mapping a zoonotic disease: Anglo-American efforts to control bovine tuberculosis before World War I -- Susan D. Jones; title: Clever microbes: bacteriology and sanitary technology in Manchester and Chicago during the progressive age -- Harold Platt; title: Harold Knapp and the geography of normal controversy: radioiodine in the historical environment -- Scott Kirsch; title: The artificial nature of fluoridated water: between nations, knowledge, and material flows -- Christopher Sellers; title: The Fruits of ill-health: pesticides and workers' bodies in post-World War II California -- Linda Nash; title: Poisoned food, poisoned uniforms, and anthrax, or, how guerillas die in war -- Luise White; title: Oral history, subjectivity and environmental reality: occupational health histories in Twentieth-Century Scotland -- Ronnie Johnston and Arthur McIvor; title: Biological citizenship: the science and politics of Chernobyl-exposed populations -- Adriana Petryna; title: Uncertain exposures and the privilege of imperception: activist scientists and race at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- Michelle Murphy; title: From Bhopal to the informating of environmentalism: risk communication in historical perspective-- Kim Fortun.