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Shopping our way to safety : how we changed from protecting the environment to protecting ourselves / Andrew Szasz.

By: Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 320 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780816635085 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 0816635080 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 9780816635092 (pb : alk. paper)
  • 0816635099 (pb : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 339.4/70973 22
LOC classification:
  • HC110.E5 S93 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: inverted quarantine -- Two historical case studies -- The fallout shelter panic of 1961 -- Suburbanization as inverted quarantine -- Assembling a personal commodity bubble for one's body -- Drinking -- Eating -- Breathing -- Consequences of inverted quarantine -- Imaginary refuge -- Political anesthesia -- Conclusion: the future of an illusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: inverted quarantine -- Two historical case studies -- The fallout shelter panic of 1961 -- Suburbanization as inverted quarantine -- Assembling a personal commodity bubble for one's body -- Drinking -- Eating -- Breathing -- Consequences of inverted quarantine -- Imaginary refuge -- Political anesthesia -- Conclusion: the future of an illusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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