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Illness and the Environment examines how sick people and their allies struggle to achieve public recognition of somatic complaints and disabilities that they contend are related to \"manufactured environments.\" The first of its kind, the anthology considers the political, legal, and medical conflicts arising from these illnesses, and will prove invaluable to researchers, scholars, public policy makers, trial attorneys, and activist organizations.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50362960544017,"sku":"CIN0814747299A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50367689294097,"sku":"CIN0814747299G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51410138398993,"sku":"GOR014263343","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52677185372433,"sku":"NLS9780814747292","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53236990050577,"sku":"CIN0814747299VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0814747299.jpg?v=1763225027"},{"product_id":"recovering-inequality-book-steve-kroll-smith-9781477316115","title":"Recovering Inequality","description":"A lethal mix of natural disaster, dangerously flawed construction, and reckless human actions devastated San Francisco in 1906 and New Orleans in 2005. 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