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embermc's review
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.
courtneyfalling's review
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.
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