Reviews

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

embermc's review against another edition

5.0

Useful read on the politics of expertise and 'objectivity' in science -- particularly appreciated how it's a narrative different than many of these cases -- white, office workers leveraging unions as opposed to racial and income minorities. Really useful for STS scholarship! Will definitely assign portions to my courses.

caitlincurran's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

4.0

courtneyfalling's review against another edition

4.0

I expected this book to offer a relatively dense, concentrated view on Sick Building Syndrome, but there are so many compelling analyses, connections, frameworks, and alternate histories here! In particular, questions of racial and class privilege, the strict boundaries of biomedicine vs. strategies of resistance to that strictness, the feminization of nonspecific illness, and the consequences of capitalism in defining, creating, maintaining, and structuring illness experiences recur in adapted ways throughout the book. Surprisingly enjoyable to read while staying deeply insightful.