Screen LibraryFatal isolation : the devastating Paris heat wave of 2003 /
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University of Chicago Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Chicago : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780226251110 (cloth : alkaline paper) : 022625111X (cloth : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | GB5011 |
| CLC: | X435.65 |
| Call Number: | X435.65/K293 |
| Contents: | Stories, suffering, and the state : the heat wave and narratives of disaster -- Anecdotal life : isolation, vulnerability, and social marginalization -- Place matters : mortality, space, and urban form -- Vulnerability and the political imagination : constructing old age in postwar France -- Counting the dead : risk and the limits of epidemiology. |