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9780807823149

Hazards of the Job : From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science

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  • ISBN13:

    9780807823149

  • ISBN10:

    0807823147

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-03-01
  • Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

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Summary

This biological history of the workplace traces how a science of occupational and environmental health and the roots of modern environmentalism evolved at the crossroads where medicine and science meet business, labor, and the state.

Author Biography

Christopher C. Sellers holds an M.D. and also a Ph.D. in American studies. He is associate professor of history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xiii
Prologue. A Source for Silent Spring 1(12)
White City's Ghosts
13(32)
The Progressive Allure of the Worker's Ills
45(24)
A Public and Constructive Knowledge
69(38)
A Faltering Dream of Expertise
107(34)
Pax Toxicologica
141(46)
The Environmental Turn
187(40)
Conclusion. Ordering Toxicity from the Workplace to the Environment 227(14)
Notes 241(76)
Index 317

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