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Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Medical and Philosophical Commentaries
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Pages : 476
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Happy Apocalypse
Author: Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1839765518
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Being environmentally conscious is not nearly as modern as we imagine. As a mode of thinking it goes back hundreds of years. Yet we typically imagine ourselves among the first to grasp the impact humanity has on the environment. Hence there is a fashion for green confessions and mea culpas. But the notion of a contemporary ecological awakening leads to political impasse. It erases a long history of environmental destruction. Furthermore, by focusing on our present virtues, it overlooks the struggles from which our perspective arose. In response, Happy Apocalypse plunges us into the heart of controversies that emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries around factories, machines, vaccines and railways. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz demonstrates how risk was conceived, managed, distributed and erased to facilitate industrialization. He explores how clinical expertise around 1800 allowed vaccination to be presented as completely benign, how the polluter-pays principle emerged in the nineteenth century to legitimize the chemical industry, how safety norms were invented to secure industrial capital and how criticisms and objections were silenced or overcome to establish technological modernity. Societies of the past did not inadvertently alter their environments on a massive scale. Nor did they disregard the consequences of their decisions. They seriously considered them, sometimes with dread. The history recounted in this book is not one of a sudden awakening but a process of modernising environmental disinhibition.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1839765518
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Being environmentally conscious is not nearly as modern as we imagine. As a mode of thinking it goes back hundreds of years. Yet we typically imagine ourselves among the first to grasp the impact humanity has on the environment. Hence there is a fashion for green confessions and mea culpas. But the notion of a contemporary ecological awakening leads to political impasse. It erases a long history of environmental destruction. Furthermore, by focusing on our present virtues, it overlooks the struggles from which our perspective arose. In response, Happy Apocalypse plunges us into the heart of controversies that emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries around factories, machines, vaccines and railways. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz demonstrates how risk was conceived, managed, distributed and erased to facilitate industrialization. He explores how clinical expertise around 1800 allowed vaccination to be presented as completely benign, how the polluter-pays principle emerged in the nineteenth century to legitimize the chemical industry, how safety norms were invented to secure industrial capital and how criticisms and objections were silenced or overcome to establish technological modernity. Societies of the past did not inadvertently alter their environments on a massive scale. Nor did they disregard the consequences of their decisions. They seriously considered them, sometimes with dread. The history recounted in this book is not one of a sudden awakening but a process of modernising environmental disinhibition.
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Languages : en
Pages : 1102
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Pages : 1102
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Catalogue
Author: Davis & Orioli (Firm)
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Languages : en
Pages : 734
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Pages : 734
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Languages : en
Pages : 1236
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
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Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
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Catalogue
Author: Maggs Bros
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States
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Pages : 1102
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Pages : 1102
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Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)
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Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
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Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
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The War Against Smallpox
Author: Michael Bennett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521765676
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
A history of the global spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, when millions of children were saved from smallpox.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521765676
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
A history of the global spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, when millions of children were saved from smallpox.