Author: Linda Nash
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0520248872
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0520248872
Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge
Among the most far-reaching effects of the modern environmental movement was the widespread acknowledgment that human beings were inescapably part of a larger ecosystem.
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With this book, Linda Nash gives us a wholly original and much longer history of "ecological" ideas of the body as that history unfolded in California's Central Valley. Taking us from nineteenth-century fears of miasmas and faith in wilderness cures to the recent era of chemical pollution and cancer clusters, Nash charts how Americans have connected their diseases to race and place as well as dirt and germs. In this account, the rise of germ theory and the pushing aside of an earlier environmental approach to illness constituted not a clear triumph of modern biomedicine but
Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge
Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge - Linda Nash
Inescapable Ecologies A History of Environment, Disease, And Knowledge, ISBN-13: 9780520248878, ISBN-10: 0520248872
Among the most far-reaching effects of the modern environmental movement was the widespread acknowledgment that human beings were inescapably part of a larger ecosystem. With this book, Linda Nash gives us a wholly original and much longer history of "ecological" ideas of the body as that history unfolded in California's Central Valley. Taking us from nineteenth-century fears of miasmas and faith in wilderness cures to the recent era of chemical pollution and cancer clusters, Nash charts how Americans have connected their diseases to race and place as well as dirt and germs. In this account, t
""A breath-taking first book. Nash does a terrific job.""???Vicki Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America ""An excellent book that treats environmental history
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With this book, Linda Nash gives us a wholly original and much longer history of "ecological" ideas of the body as that history unfolded in California's Central Valley
In this account, the rise of germ theory and the pushing aside of an earlier environmental approach to illness constituted not a clear triumph of modern biomedicine but
