Dirty Words: Writings on the History and Culture of Pollution (Environmentalism and Politics Set) - Softcover

Did dinosaurs contribute to global warming? What is rubbish theory and what indeed is rubbish? And how did the whale become a cuddly toy? And why did we decide to saturate our land and food with pesticides? Dirty Words examines all of these questions and also includes a study of pollution in fiction, from the fogs of Dickens to the smog of Chandler, advice on how to be an environmental troublemaker, and a suggestion of our choice of futures: the world as an icebox or a greenhouse. This entertaining and provocative collection of pieces by a group of environmental experts challenges the reader to take a closer look at the current pollution debate. Originally published in 1991

Hannah Bradby s research on how ethnicity and racism intervene in the social relations of health has been published in various journals including Social Science and Medicine and Sociological Research Online . She co-edits the journal Ethnicity and Health and is the Sociology of Health and Illness monograph series editor. Hannah has taught both medics and sociologists at the University of Warwick since 2000, employing various representations of health, illness and suffering including written (memoire, letters, reportage, fiction, clinical notes, empirical research) and spoken forms (evidence from clinicians, patients and former patients, in various languages, and sometimes mediated by trained interpreters). She has worked on the core medical school curriculum and special study modules and has collaborated with students to publish books of their own sociological work, both written and photographic. Building on observations by the late Meg Stacey (the first female professor at the University of Warwick) on medical sociology s lack of attention to war as a public health problem Hannah co-edited (with Gillian Hundt) a collection entitled Global Perspectives on War, Gender and Health (2010, Avebury). Medical Sociology: An introduction (2009, Sage) seeks to interpret sociological criticism of medicine and insights into the experience of illness for medical students.