Our Synthetic Environment Chapter 1 Tuesday, November 18 2003 @ 01:22 AM PST

Contributed by: murray

By: Murray Bookchin
CHAPTER ONE: THE PROBLEM Our Changed Environment

Life in the United States has changed so radically over the past one hundred years that the most wearisome historians tend to become rhapsodic when they describe [...]

CHAPTER EIGHT: HEALTH AND SOCIETY Individual and Social Aspects of Health

A new approach is likely to gain easier acceptance if it involves individual rather than social action. The majority of people tend to look for immediate, practical solutions that they can adopt without having to face major social and environmental problems. They search for [...]

APPENDIX A: CHANGING CONCEPTS OF ILLNESS

-An Excerpt from “The Healthy Environment”
by John D. Porterfield, Deputy Surgeon General of the United States*

Our dazzling technological progress since World War II has yielded a random harvest of mixed blessings, and a bumper crop of new health challenges. These challenges differ from our traditional [...]