This publication is presented to you through Paradigm Publishing Services
University of Chicago Press
Chapter
Licensed
Unlicensed
Requires Authentication
1. Stories, Suffering, and the State: The Heat Wave and Narratives of Disaster
You are currently not able to access this content.
You are currently not able to access this content.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Introduction 1
- 1. Stories, Suffering, and the State: The Heat Wave and Narratives of Disaster 25
- 2. Anecdotal Life: Isolation, Vulnerability, and Social Marginalization 57
- 3. Place Matters: Mortality, Space, and Urban Form 87
- 4. Vulnerability and the Political Imagination: Constructing Old Age in Postwar France 115
- 5. Counting the Dead: Risk and the Limits of Epidemiology 150
- Epilogue 181
- Acknowledgments 193
- Notes 197
- Bibliography 221
- Index 239
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Introduction 1
- 1. Stories, Suffering, and the State: The Heat Wave and Narratives of Disaster 25
- 2. Anecdotal Life: Isolation, Vulnerability, and Social Marginalization 57
- 3. Place Matters: Mortality, Space, and Urban Form 87
- 4. Vulnerability and the Political Imagination: Constructing Old Age in Postwar France 115
- 5. Counting the Dead: Risk and the Limits of Epidemiology 150
- Epilogue 181
- Acknowledgments 193
- Notes 197
- Bibliography 221
- Index 239
