Hazards of the job from industrial disease to environmental health science /
"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 c...
| Main Author: | Sellers, Christopher C. |
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| Other Authors: | EBSCOhost. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[1997]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xv, 331 pages) : illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: A Source for Silent Spring
- White City's Ghosts
- Progressive Allure of the Worker's Ills
- A Public and Constructive Knowledge
- A Faltering Dream of Expertise
- Pax Toxicologica
- Environmental Turn
- Conclusion: Ordering Toxicity from the Workplace to the Environment.