Inescapable Ecologies

A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge

Linda Nash

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University of California Press
05 January 2007

History of science; Human geography; Applied ecology

"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."

By: Linda Nash
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780520248878
ISBN 10: 0520248872
Pages: 346
Publication Date: 05 January 2007
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Body and Environment in an Era of Colonization 2. Placing Health and Disease 3. Producing a Sanitary Landscape 4. Modern Landscapes and Ecological Bodies 5. Contesting the Space of Disease Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Linda Nash is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Washington.

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

"""A breath-taking first book. Nash does a terrific job."" - Vicki Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America ""An excellent book that treats environmental history in a fresh new way."" - Elliott West, author of The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers and the Rush to Colorado"""