Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge
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 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.
Best prices to buy, sell, or rent ISBN 9780520248878
Frequently Asked Questions about Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge
The price for the book starts from $10.99 on Amazon and is available from 26 sellers at the moment.
If you’re interested in selling back the Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge book, you can always look up BookScouter for the best deal. BookScouter checks 30+ buyback vendors with a single search and gives you actual information on buyback pricing instantly.
As for the Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge book, the best buyback offer comes from and is $ for the book in good condition.
The Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge book is in very low demand now as the rank for the book is 1,776,564 at the moment. A rank of 1,000,000 means the last copy sold approximately a month ago.
The highest price to sell back the Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge book within the last three months was on December 16 and it was $0.97.