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<div align="center"><b><i>MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural
History<br>
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“How Sick Was My Valley: A History of Bodies, Ecologies, and
Knowledge in California’s Rural Landscape”<br>
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Linda Nash <br>
Associate Professor of History, University of Washington<br>
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Medicinethe practices of understanding, curing, and preventing
diseasehas been central to our relationship with rural spaces. In
the nineteenth century, it was assumed that sickness sprang from place,
yet in the twentieth it would become almost impossible to connect the
two. Nineteenth-century settlers debated the health costs of
irrigation and tree cutting, while in the twentieth century organic
pesticides were introduced on a massive scale with little discussion of
their potential health effects. How did it become possible to
understand disease and health as states that are fully independent of the
landscape? What are the history and the social implications of any
particular view of disease?<br>
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<div align="center"><b>Friday, November 16, 2007<br>
2:30 to 4:30 pm<br>
Building E51 Room 095<br>
Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, Cambridge<br>
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</b>Sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and the Program in Science,
Technology, and Society. For more information or to be put on the mailing
list, please contact Margo Collett at
<a href="mailto:mcollet@mit.edu">mcollett@mit.edu</a>. <br>
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