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Thomson, Jennifer Christine.

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From Wilderness to the Toxic Environment: Health in American Environmental Politics, 1945-Present.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	From Wilderness to the Toxic Environment: Health in American Environmental Politics, 1945-Present./
Author:	Thomson, Jennifer Christine.
Description:	260 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-10A(E).
Subject:	Science history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3567095
ISBN:	9781303187315

From Wilderness to the Toxic Environment: Health in American Environmental Politics, 1945-Present.
Thomson, Jennifer Christine.

From Wilderness to the Toxic Environment: Health in American Environmental Politics, 1945-Present. - 260 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2013.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation joins the history of science and medicine with environmental history to explore the language of health in environmental politics. Today, in government policy briefs and mission statements of environmental non-profits, newspaper editorials and activist journals, claims about the health of the planet and its human and non-human inhabitants abound. Yet despite this rhetorical ubiquity, modern environmental politics are ideologically and organizationally fractured along the themes of whose health is at stake and how that health should be protected. This dissertation traces how these competing conceptions of health came to structure the landscape of American environmental politics.

ISBN: 9781303187315Subjects--Topical Terms:

2144850
Science history.

From Wilderness to the Toxic Environment: Health in American Environmental Politics, 1945-Present.
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