Sellers, Christopher C. (Author)
By surveying myriad ways that twentieth-century American experts and nonexperts grappled with the health implications of aerial exposures to lead or substances that may have contained lead, this paper urges medical historians' attention toward environments---workplaces, homes and the outdoors---and their extrabodily ontology. Health histories framed around dust, toxins, fumes, and pollution rather than around particular diseases challenge long-accepted narratives, such as Hibbert Hill's old generalization about a "New Public Health" shift from "the environment to the individual." Greater environmental focus can also advance "bottom-up" health history. Pushing the gaze of twentieth-century medical and public health historians beyond hospitals, "public health" departments, clinically confirmable disease, and "patient" roles, it draws historians' attention to health-related realms in which laypeople often claimed greater knowledge and competence.
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Troesken, Werner;
(2007)
The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster
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Turner, James Morton;
(2015)
Following the Pb: An Envirotechnical Approach to Lead-Acid Batteries in the United States
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Sellers, Christopher C.;
Melling, Joseph;
(2012)
Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World
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Markowitz, Gerald E.;
Rosner, David;
(2013)
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Markowitz, Gerald E.;
(2016)
The Childhood Lead Poisoning Epidemic in Historical Perspective
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Jennifer (Jennifer Christine) Thomson;
(2019)
The Wild and the Toxic: American environmentalism and the politics of health
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(2010)
Flies, Manure, and Window Screens: Medical Entomology and Environmental Reform in Early-Twentieth-Century US Cities
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(2007)
Health and the Modern Home
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Langston, Nancy;
(2010)
Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES
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Melling, Joseph;
Sellers, Christopher;
(2012)
Objective Collectives? Transnationalism and “Invisible College”s in Occupational and Environmental Health from Collis to Selikoff
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Schroeder, Gabe;
(2011)
“Just Plain Murder”: Public Debate and Corporate Diplomacy in Donora's Fight for Clean Air
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Catherine Mills;
W. Paul Adderley;
(2016)
Occupational Exposure to Heavy Metals Poisoning: Scottish Lead Mining
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Jessica L. Epstein;
(2016)
The Legacy of Tetraethyllead
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(2000)
Environmental Public Health Policy for Asbestos in Schools: Unintended Consequences
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(2007)
Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice
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Bradley D. Snow;
(2017)
Living with Lead: An Environmental History of Idaho's Coeur D'Alenes, 1885-2011
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(2001)
Old Paint: A Medical History of Childhood Lead-Paint Poisoning in the United States to 1980
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(2016)
Leaded: The Poisoning of Idaho's Silver Valley
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(2020)
Silver veins, dusty lungs: mining, water, and public health in Zacatecas, 1835-1946
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íguez-Ocaña, Esteban Rodr;
(2002)
The Politics of the Healthy Life: An International Perspective
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