Sick building syndrome and the problem of uncertainty : environmental politics, technoscience, and women workers / Michelle Murphy.

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2006.

x, 253 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-240) and index.

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.