Hazards of the job :: from industrial disease to environmental health science /

"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 c...

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1. Verfasser: Sellers, Christopher C.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1997.
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Zusammenfassung:"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
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xv, 331 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-315) and index.
ISBN:0585027293
9780585027296
0807864455
9780807864456

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