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Hazards of the job : from industrial disease to environmental health science

Title: Hazards of the job : from industrial disease to environmental health science / Christopher C. Sellers.
Author: Sellers, Christopher C.
Publication: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

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Description

xv, 331 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

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 on lead and other poisonings among workers, alongside the controversies that it addressed and roused.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

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 the Environment.

ISBN

0807823147 (Cloth : alk. paper))

LCCN

96025455

OCLC

34875782
ocm34875782

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries