Hazards of the job : from industrial disease to environmental health science / Christopher C. Seller...
Hazards of the job : from industrial disease to environmental health science / Christopher C. Seller...
Hazards of the job : from industrial disease to environmental health science / Christopher C. Sellers.
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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1997.
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N363.1109/2
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English
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Physical content
xv, 331 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Prologue. A Source for Silent Spring -- 1. White City's Ghosts -- 2. The Progressive Allure of the Worker's Ills -- 3. A Public and Constructive Knowledge -- 4. A Faltering Dream of Expertise -- 5. Pax Toxicologica -- 6. The Environmental Turn -- Conclusion. Ordering Toxicity from the Workplace to t...
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Publisher
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1997.
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North Carolina
Date Published
c1997.
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Summary
Hazards of the Job explores the roots of modern environmentalism in the early-twentieth-century United States. It was in the workplace of this era, argues Christopher Sellers, that our contemporary understanding of environmental health dangers first took shape. Sellers traces the creation of a viable industrial hygiene expertise, focused initially...
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Hazards of the job : from industrial disease to environmental health science / Christopher C. Sellers.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-315) and index.
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N363.1109/2
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74VvpWoArRyg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvpWoArRyg
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ISBN
0807847984 (pbk.) :
9780807823149 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807823147 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807847985(pbk.) :
0807847984(pbk.) :
9780807847985 (pbk.) :
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363.1109
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991005302609702626
