Happy Apocalypse: A History Of Technological Risk Jean-Baptiste Fressoz Verso Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία World

Being Environmentally Conscious Is Not Nearly As Modern We Imagine A Mode Of Thinking It Goes Back Hundreds Years Yet Typically Ourselves Among The First To Grasp Impact Humanity Has On Environment Hence There Fashion For Green Confessions And Mea Culpas But Notion Contemporary Ecological Awakening Leads Political Impasse Erases Long History Environmental Destruction Furthermore By Focusing Our Present Virtues Overlooks Struggles From Which Perspective Arose In Response Happy Apocalypse Plunges Us Into Heart Controversies That Emerged Eighteenth Nineteenth Centuries Around Factories Machines Vaccines Railways Jean-Baptiste Fressoz Demonstrates How Risk Was Conceived Managed Distributed Erased Facilitate Industrialization He Explores Clinical Expertise 1800 Allowed Vaccination Be Presented Completely Benign Polluter-Pays Principle Century Legitimize Chemical Industry Safety Norms Were Invented Secure Industrial Capital Criticisms Objections Silenced Or Overcome Establish Technological Modernity Societies Past Did Inadvertently Alter Their Environments Massive Scale Nor They Disregard Consequences Decisions Seriously Considered Them Sometimes With Dread Recounted This Book One Sudden Process Modernising Disinhibition Σελίδες: 272 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0903 Διαστάσεις: 15 3X15 3Cm