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Sarah M. Rios - Diseases Have No Eyes, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Diseases Have No Eyes

Valley Fever and Environmental Health Justice

Av Sarah M. Rios

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Diseases Have No Eyes investigates how communities in Central Valley, California deal with Valley Fever, a painful illness caused by a soil fungus. The airborne disease's symptoms can last from two months to a patient's lifetime and may be fatal. Nearly a third of the national cases are reported in California, where those infected are disproportionately farmworkers and people incarcerated in the region. Poverty, pollution, and prison expose these groups to cumulative environmental and health risks that deny Valley Fever patients adequate medical treatment.Sarah M. Rios examines how these populations face racial health disparities and develop strategies of care. She connects environmental justice activists as well as prison advocates and abolitionists who mobilize protests and issue calls to action to the past and ongoing efforts for medical autonomy and healthy communities. Diseases Have No Eyes emphasizes that vulnerable groups have developed an expertise and understanding of Valley Fever out of necessity. In the process, these community members offer an alternative public health response that extends beyond the individual body.In the series Insubordinate Spaces
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Sarah M. Rios is Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at Cal Poly Humboldt.

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"Grounded in humanizing ethnographic research, Diseases Have No Eyes provides a compellingly honest approach to the history of the dangerous toll of industries throughout the state of California's rural areas. Direly needed, and poised to be a trailblazing book, Diseases Have No Eyes is an indispensable contribution demonstrating the various informed positionalities and strategies farmworkers, incarcerated people, environmental-justice mobilizers, and their families pursue when confronting health injustices." - Ana Elizabeth Rosas, Associate Professor of History and Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine"In this remarkable book, Sarah Rios offers a vivid ethnography of environmental suffering, unearthing how ordinary folks think, feel, and act amid everyday toxic assaults. Interdisciplinary and deeply granular, it brings readers into the lived textures of slow-motion harm while illuminating the often-invisible labor of grassroots activists who collectively struggle against widespread toxicity and its pernicious effects on minds and bodies." - Javier Auyero, Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Patients of the State: The Politics of Waiting in Argentina

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