Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty
Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers
1st Edition
Published on 22. February 2006
264 pages
978-0-8223-8783-1 (ISBN)
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An account of sick building syndrome and the large number of historical conditions--office worker protests, feminism, ventilation engineering, toxicology, etc.--that coalesced to give this phenomenon real existence.
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Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers
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Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers
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Michelle Murphy is Assistant Professor in the History Department and the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Man in a Box: Building-Machines and the Science of Comfort 19
2. Building Ladies into the Office Machine 35
3. Feminism, Surveys, and Toxic Details 57
4. Indoor Pollution at the Encounter of Toxicology and Popular Epidemiology 81
5. Uncertainty, Race, and Activism at the EPA 111
6. Building Ecologies, Tobacco, and the Politics of Multiplicity 131
7. How to Build Yourself a Body in a Safe Space 151
Epilogue 179
Bibliography 181
Notes 213
Index 241
Introduction 1
1. Man in a Box: Building-Machines and the Science of Comfort 19
2. Building Ladies into the Office Machine 35
3. Feminism, Surveys, and Toxic Details 57
4. Indoor Pollution at the Encounter of Toxicology and Popular Epidemiology 81
5. Uncertainty, Race, and Activism at the EPA 111
6. Building Ecologies, Tobacco, and the Politics of Multiplicity 131
7. How to Build Yourself a Body in a Safe Space 151
Epilogue 179
Bibliography 181
Notes 213
Index 241
