SOSA 2503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Persistent Organic Pollutant, Rachel Carson
15 Dec 2013
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Sociology 18th century from industrial revolution to current, what was happening. People slow to talk about environment, can see in engels reading. Effect of living conditions, sanitation, water supply on health. Rudolph fircoff poland typhus outbreak study, social/living conditions as cause as opposed to biological causes. Virchow, snow cholera shoe leather epidemiology . Snow british physician, studied cholera 1854 london, unusual at the time, observed areas affected shoe leather epidemiology, some kinds of people sick, others not. Local brewers not getting sick, drank beer more exclusively. Found varied social conditions, found contaminated water as the source. Located within particular bodies, focus on interventions targeted to individual: drugs, surgery, vaccines. Rachel carson (marine biologist), silent spring: ddt effects, contaminates water, kills birds/fish, agricultural industry tried to discredit, presidential advisory committee formed, environmental protection agency formed. Potential roles of sociology of health and illness. Kroll-smith & floyd, bodies in protest: multiple chemical sensitivity, have to convince others of its legitimacy.
