Inescapable Ecologies - A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge (Paperback)

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 CaliforniaOCOs 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 rather a brief period of modern amnesia. As Nash shows us, place-based accounts of illness re-emerged in the postwar decades, galvanizing environmental protest against smog and toxic chemicals. Carefully researched and richly conceptual, "Inescapable Ecologies" brings critically important insights to the histories of environment, culture, and public health, while offering a provocative commentary on the human relationship to the larger world."

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2007
First published:	2007
Authors:	Linda Nash
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	346
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-24887-8
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Applied ecology > General
LSN:	0-520-24887-2
Barcode:	9780520248878

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