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Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge

2006 The Regents of the University of California ;ISBN: 9780520248915 ;ISBN: 0520248910 ;ISBN: 9780520248878 ;ISBN: 0520248872 ;EISBN: 0520939999 ;EISBN: 9780520939998 ;OCLC: 76965363 ;LCCallNum: RA807.C2N37 2006

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  • Title:
    Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge
  • Author: Nash, Linda
  • Subjects: California ; Environmental health ; Environmental Science ; History ; Medical geography ; Public health
  • Description: 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 California's 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 Ecologiesbrings 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.
  • Publisher: Berkeley: University of California Press
  • Creation Date: 2006
  • Format: 346
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780520248915
    ISBN: 0520248910
    ISBN: 9780520248878
    ISBN: 0520248872
    EISBN: 0520939999
    EISBN: 9780520939998
    OCLC: 76965363
    LCCallNum: RA807.C2N37 2006
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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