Shopping our way to safety : how we changed from protecting the environment to protecting ourselves /

Main Author: Szasz, Andrew, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
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245 1 |a Shopping our way to safety :  |b how we changed from protecting the environment to protecting ourselves /  |c Andrew Szasz. 
260 1 |a Minneapolis :  |b University of Minnesota Press,  |c c2007. 
300 1 |a xi, 323 p. :  |b ill., map ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 1 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 283- 317) and index. 
505 1 |a Introduction: inverted quarantine -- Two historical case studies -- The fallout shelter panic of 1961 -- Suburbanization as inverted quarantine -- Assembling a personal commodity bubble for one's body -- Drinking -- Eating -- Breathing -- Consequences of inverted quarantine -- Imaginary refuge -- Political anesthesia -- Conclusion: the future of an illusion -- Notes -- References -- Index. 
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650 1 |a Consumption (Economics)  |z United States 
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