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Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty A detailed history of how sick building syndrome came into being: how indoor exposures to chemicals wafting from synthetic carpet, solvents, and so on became something that office workers felt and protested against.
Review:
"This is a fascinating book that seeks to move the history of occupational and environmental health together into a common space. . . . This is a well researched and carefully crafted history. It deserves serious attention by the academic community."
--David Rosner, J"ournal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences"
"In "Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty," Michelle Murphy deftly navigates a course that winds through the emergence and evolution of this mysterious illness, using the journey as an opportunity to highlight and expand our understanding of environmental justice and the politics of uncertainty in a synthetic world."
--Jody Roberts, "Chemical Heritage"
"[P]resents a fresh and challenging approach to prevailing understandings of the nature and production
of occupational and environmental illness and disease. I certainly see the field very differently having read this book. . . . "Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty "significantly expands the realm of possibility for social intervention and change in occupational and environmental illness. I recommend it to fellow travellers."
--Toni Schofield, "Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health"
"[A] provocative and superbly written account which lies within the intersection of medical and labour history. It has much of interest within it for the social historian of medicine and adds to a vibrant genre of research in the occupational and environmental health history field which is growing on both sides of the Atlantic. . . . [T]his is an outstanding book that successfully redirects our attention to the health impacts of the modern indoor working environment and encourages the reader to reflect upon the processes through which occupational diseases are made visible, and to question the claims of much contemporary science that the office is a benign and healthy place in which to toil. Social historians of medicine will find this book a challenging and stimulating read."
--Arthur McIvor, "Social History of Medicine"
""Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty" is all at once about the women's health movement, ventilation, cybernetics, virology, and chemical toxicity. It is labor history and medical history wrapped into a fiercely disputed knot. Unraveling that tangle, and using the Syndrome to tell us about who we were at the turn of the millennium, Michelle Murphy has written a remarkable, insightful book."--Peter Galison, author of "Einstein's Clocks, PoincarE's Maps: Empires of Time"
"Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty" is all at once about the women s health movement, ventilation, cybernetics, virology, and chemical toxicity. It is labor history and medical history wrapped into a fiercely disputed knot. Unraveling that tangle, and using the Syndrome to tell us about who we were at the turn of the millennium, Michelle Murphy has written a remarkable, insightful book. Peter Galison, author of "Einstein s Clocks, Poincare s Maps: Empires of Time""
Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty is all at once about the women s health movement, ventilation, cybernetics, virology, and chemical toxicity. It is labor history and medical history wrapped into a fiercely disputed knot. Unraveling that tangle, and using the Syndrome to tell us about who we were at the turn of the millennium, Michelle Murphy has written a remarkable, insightful book. Peter Galison, author of Einstein s Clocks, Poincare s Maps: Empires of Time"
How does an illness come into being? In this provocative study, Michelle Murphy takes us on a journey into the making of an environmental illness, into the spaces of the modern office building, gendered labor practices, and workers bodies to reveal what is perceived and what is invisible in the built environment where many Americans spend their working days. How sick buildings and indoor air pollution became visible problems in environmental health is a story that takes us far beyond the architectural history of office buildings. It takes us deep into the architecture of reality: into how we know and what we know about environmental exposures and the uncertainties they pose both to knowledge and human health. Gregg Mitman, author of The State of Nature: Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, 1900 1950"
"Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty is all at once about the women's health movement, ventilation, cybernetics, virology, and chemical toxicity. It is labor history and medical history wrapped into a fiercely disputed knot. Unraveling that tangle, and using the Syndrome to tell us about who we were at the turn of the millennium, Michelle Murphy has written a remarkable, insightful book."--Peter Galison, author of Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time
"How does an illness come into being? In this provocative study, Michelle Murphy takes us on a journey into the making of an environmental illness, into the spaces of the modern office building, gendered labor practices, and workers' bodies to reveal what is perceived and what is invisible in the built environment where many Americans spend their working days. How sick buildings and indoor air pollution became visible problems in environmental health is a story that takes us far beyond the architectural history of office buildings. It takes us deep into the architecture of reality: into how we know and what we know about environmental exposures and the uncertainties they pose both to knowledge and human health."--Gregg Mitman, author of The State of Nature: Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, 1900-1950
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