Before 1980, sick building syndrome did not exist. By the 1990s, it was among the most commonly investigated occupational health problems in the United States. Afflicted by headaches, rashes, and immune system disorders, office workers - mostly women - protested that their workplaces were filled with toxic hazards. Yet federal investigators could detect no chemical cause. This richly detailed history tells the story of how sick building syndrome came into being. It also tells how indoor exposures to chemicals wafting from synthetic carpet, ink, adhesive, solvents, dry board, and so on became something that relatively privileged Americans worried over, felt, and ultimately sought to do something about. As Michelle Murphy shows, sick building syndrome provides a window into how environmental politics moved indoors. Sick building syndrome embodied a politics of uncertainty that continues to characterize contemporary American environmental debates. Michelle Murphy explores the production of uncertainty by juxtaposing multiple histories, each of which explains how an expert or lay tradition made chemical exposures perceptible or imperceptible, existent or non-existent. She shows how uncertainty emerged from a complex confluence of feminist activism, office worker protests, ventilation engineering, toxicology, popular epidemiology, corporate science, and ecology. In an illuminating case study, she reflects on EPA scientists' efforts to have their headquarters recognized as a sick building. Murphy brings all of these histories together in what is not only a thorough account of an environmental health problem but also a much deeper exploration of the relationship between history, materiality, and uncertainty.
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well-done
评分regime of perceptibility。我們的生活是室內的生活，是和室內空間相交互的密切感受。而在統一的辦公區域中，誰的perception是有效的，誰的complaint被消聲，都是現實這個uneven power terrain的具化展示。gender，race，disability，還有很多很多。而本書的曆史也是反抗的曆史，是對於室內空間的不同記述/理解交相輝印試圖對話的曆史。所以作者著重介紹瞭“科學”的toxicology和大眾的“popular epidemiology”的參差，在不同的係統中尋找不同body的痕跡。吊詭的是，若想要個體的病感被重視，這些主觀感受就要被統一成客觀的科學度量，於是在主觀客觀之間，知識的來齣被不斷質問和揭示，構成瞭這一幅環境科學畫捲
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评分regime of perceptibility。我們的生活是室內的生活，是和室內空間相交互的密切感受。而在統一的辦公區域中，誰的perception是有效的，誰的complaint被消聲，都是現實這個uneven power terrain的具化展示。gender，race，disability，還有很多很多。而本書的曆史也是反抗的曆史，是對於室內空間的不同記述/理解交相輝印試圖對話的曆史。所以作者著重介紹瞭“科學”的toxicology和大眾的“popular epidemiology”的參差，在不同的係統中尋找不同body的痕跡。吊詭的是，若想要個體的病感被重視，這些主觀感受就要被統一成客觀的科學度量，於是在主觀客觀之間，知識的來齣被不斷質問和揭示，構成瞭這一幅環境科學畫捲
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