Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers Michelle Murphy

Abstract

An account of sick building syndrome and the large number of historical conditions--office worker protests, feminism, ventilation engineering, toxicology, etc.--that coalesced to give this phenomenon real existence. Man in a box: building-machines and the science of comfort -- Building ladies into the office machine -- Feminism, surveys, and toxic details -- Indoor pollution at the encounter of toxicology and popular epidemiology -- Uncertainty, race, and activism at the EPA -- Building ecologies, tobacco, and the politics of multiplicity -- How to build yourself a body in a safe space.