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1 Online-Ressource (xi, 323 pages)
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illustrations, map
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0816635080
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0816635099
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0816653704
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9780816635085
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9780816635092
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9780816653706
Inhalt:
Many Americans today rightly fear that they are exposed to toxins in their environment. Yet we have responded not by pushing for governmental regulation, but instead by shopping. Andrew Szasz examines this phenomenon and argues that when consumers believe that they are buying a defense from hazards, they feel less urgency to fix them. To achieve real protection, he concludes, we must give up individual solutions and together seek reform
Inhalt:
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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-317) and index
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English
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ISBN 9780816635085
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ISBN 0816635080
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ISBN 0816635099
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Szasz, Andrew, 1947- Shopping our way to safety Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007
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