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Hazards of the job : from industrial disease to environmental health science / Christopher C. Sellers.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 331 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585027293
  • 9780585027296
  • 0807864455
  • 9780807864456
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hazards of the job.DDC classification:
  • 363.11/09 20
LOC classification:
  • RC967 .S45 1997eb
NLM classification:
  • 1997 E-047
  • WA 11 AA1
Online resources:
Contents:
Prologue: A Source for Silent Spring -- White City's Ghosts -- The Progressive Allure of the Worker's Ills -- A Public and Constructive Knowledge -- A Faltering Dream of Expertise -- Pax Toxicologica -- The Environmental Turn -- Conclusion: Ordering Toxicity from the Workplace to the Environment.
Review: "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."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-315) and index.

Print version record.

Prologue: A Source for Silent Spring -- White City's Ghosts -- The Progressive Allure of the Worker's Ills -- A Public and Constructive Knowledge -- A Faltering Dream of Expertise -- Pax Toxicologica -- The Environmental Turn -- Conclusion: Ordering Toxicity from the Workplace to the Environment.

"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."--Jacket.

English.

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