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Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty - Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers (Paperback)
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Before 1980, sick building syndrome did not exist. By the 1990s, it
was among the most commonly investigated occupational health
problems in the United States. Afflicted by headaches, rashes, and
immune system disorders, office workers-mostly women-protested that
their workplaces were filled with toxic hazards; yet federal
investigators could detect no chemical cause. This richly detailed
history tells the story of how sick building syndrome came into
being: how indoor exposures to chemicals wafting from synthetic
carpet, ink, adhesive, solvents, and so on became something that
relatively privileged Americans worried over, felt, and ultimately
sought to do something about. As Michelle Murphy shows, sick
building syndrome provides a window into how environmental politics
moved indoors.Sick building syndrome embodied a politics of
uncertainty that continues to characterize contemporary American
environmental debates. Michelle Murphy explores the production of
uncertainty by juxtaposing multiple histories, each of which
explains how an expert or lay tradition made chemical exposures
perceptible or imperceptible, existent or nonexistent. She shows
how uncertainty emerged from a complex confluence of feminist
activism, office worker protests, ventilation engineering,
toxicology, popular epidemiology, corporate science, and ecology.
In an illuminating case study, she reflects on EPA scientists'
efforts to have their headquarters recognized as a sick building.
Murphy brings all of these histories together in what is not only a
thorough account of an environmental health problem but also a much
deeper exploration of the relationship between history,
materiality, and uncertainty.
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