Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science. By Christopher C. Sellers. Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press. 1997. Xv + 331 pp. 16 halftones, 6 figs, notes, index. Paper $45.00, Digital $29.99 Reviewed by Khristián Méndez Aguirre In Silent Spring, Rachel Carson pioneered the public discussion of […]
IHS Climate in Context Roundtable Book Review: The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (1980) by Carolyn Merchant
In 2020-21, the Institute for Historical Studies will convene a series of talks, workshops, and panel discussions centered on the theme “Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented”. As part of that, we are delighted to publish this roundtable discussion consisting of three reviews focused on Carolyn Merchant’s The Death of Nature, a classic […]