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Michelle Murphy

    Michelle Murphy è un'autrice che approfondisce la complessa interazione tra conoscenza medica e incertezza sociale. Il suo lavoro esplora i modi intricati in cui gli individui comprendono e sperimentano la malattia, in particolare in contesti di diagnosi ambigue e preoccupazioni ambientali. La ricerca di Murphy esamina criticamente come i discorsi scientifici e medici plasmano le nostre percezioni di salute e malattia, influenzando in ultima analisi le nostre realtà vissute.

    Seizing the Means of Reproduction
    Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty
    • In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, Michelle Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms.

      Seizing the Means of Reproduction2012
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    • A detailed history of how sick building syndrome came into being: how indoor exposures to chemicals wafting from synthetic carpet, solvents, and so on became something that office workers felt and protested against

      Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty2006
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