Life Indoors How our homes are shaping our bodies and our planet
‘Life Indoors reads together two major follies of industrial hubris and two major contributors to illness—antimicrobial resistance and toxic chemical exposures—as emerging from a common ontological problem. This generative critique that focuses on the increasingly standardized ecologies of the urban...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore
Palgrave Macmillan
2021, 2021
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Pathogens as Substances: Hygiene, Germs and Domestic Design
- 2. Inflammatory Urban Atmospheres: Biodiversity, Climate Control, and the Materiality of Buildings
- 3. The Ecology Makes the Poison: Toxicant Exposure, Antimicrobial Logic and the Biology of History
- 4. A Relational Approach to Life Indoors