Christine Sellers
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 332935 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Christine Sellers |
| PRENOMES | Christine |
| SOBRENOME | Sellers |
| ASSINATURA | SELLERS C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Stony Brook University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8909-4135 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 148 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Between Numbers and Narratives”
This study utilizes a collaborative and historical research approach to examine how and why environmental and socioeconomic burdens have accumulated over time in Port Arthur, Texas, especially on its west side. As a majority non-White city ringed by refining and petrochemical facilities—including the second largest oil refinery in North America—Port Arthur has long exemplified the “sacrifice zones” discussed in environmental justice literature an…
History of Risk Assessments of the Organophosphate Pesticide Chlorpyrifos at the US Environmental Protection Agency, 1980‒2024
This article examines the history of risk assessments of the organophosphate pesticide chlorpyrifos at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), especially after a ban on household uses in 2000. Federal funding enabled more noncorporate and place-based scientific investigations of this pesticide’s harms, including child-cohort epidemiology of populations impacted through environmental injustices. This article argues, first, that their finding…
The Co-Development of Environmental Justice and Children’s Environmental Health at the EPA
Background: In the early 1990s, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was confronting multiple challenges to its regulatory decision making. Regulated industries and congressional supporters were criticizing the agency for overestimating risk and producing regulations that were too costly. At the same time, environmental and public health advocates were criticizing the agency for not doing enough to protect communities of color, low-income co…
The EPA’s Commitment to Children’s Environmental Health
Children’s environmental health (CEH) has a 25-year history at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), during which the agency has advanced CEH through research, policy, and programs that address children’s special vulnerability to environmental harm. However, the Trump administration took many actions that weakened efforts to improve CEH. The actions included downgrading or ignoring CEH concerns in decision-making, defunding research, side…
The Problem of Accountability
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been the epicenter of national environmental justice (EJ) work since President Bill Clinton signed Executive Order (EO) 12898 in 1994. Despite this continued focus, black, Indigenous, and people of color and low-income communities still bear the brunt of environmental harms. Although the EO began to institutionalize EJ work within EPA and across the federal government, implementing EPA's…
From ‘marginal to marginal’
How damaging was the Trump administration to environmental justice (EJ) efforts and policy? Since federal EJ oversight at the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is governed by executive order, rather than statute, approaches to it have varied by presidential administration. In this paper, we draw on interviews with current and recently retired EPA employees along with staffing and budget data, to examine how EJ has historically b…
Reflections
To Place or Not to Place
Reviewing recent, overlapping work by historians of medicine and health and of environmental history, this article proposes a further agenda upon which scholars in both fields may converge. Both environmental and medical historians can seek to understand the past two centuries of medical history in terms of a seesaw dialogue over the ways and means by which physicians and other health professionals did, and did not, consider the influence of plac…
The Environmental Protection Agency in the Early Trump Administration
We explore and contextualize changes at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the first 6 months of the Trump administration, arguing that its pro-business direction is enabling a form of regulatory capture. We draw on news articles, public documents, and a rapid response, multisited interview study of current and retired EPA employees to (1) document changes associated with the new administration, (2) contextualize and compare the curre…
History of US Presidential Assaults on Modern Environmental Health Protection
The Trump administration has undertaken an assault on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), an agency critical to environmental health. This assault has precedents in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. The early Reagan administration (1981–1983) launched an overt attack on the EPA, combining deregulation with budget and staff cuts, whereas the George W. Bush administration (2001–2008) adopted a subtler approach, undermi…
Data Resistance
The dismantlement of evidence-based environmental governance by the Trump administration requires new forms of activism that uphold science and environmental regulatory agencies while critiquing the politics of knowledge production. The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) emerged after the November 2016 U.S. presidential elections, becoming an organization of over 175 volunteer researchers, technologists, archivists, and activists…
From Poison to Carcinogen
Benzene's history resembles that of many another substance discovered, industrially exploited, and then increasingly regulated across the world over the last two centuries of the chemical industry's development. This paper connects the evolving patterns of its production, use, and oversight through the twentieth century to a certain transformation in the understanding of its effects on human health. Early on, when only some of benzene's health ef…
DDT and the American century
DDT and the American century: Global health, environmental politics, and the pesticide that changed the world, by David Kinkela, Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 2011, 272 pp
Towards a transnational industrial-hazard history
We argue that industrial hazards have remained an integral feature of the international and ‘global’ economy since the early modern period, and invite historians of science into the study of their history. The growth and dissemination of knowledge about these hazards, as well as the production and trade that generate them, continue to generate deep inequalities in just who is exposed to them, as illustrated by the shifting impact of the asbestos-…
Petropolis and Environmental Protest in Cross-National Perspective
Driving into Port Arthur or Beaumont, Texas, at night, you encounter a horizon ablaze with the lights of the strange cityscape that is the modern oil refinery. Near the mouth of the Neches River, the refinery’s clumped and turreted towers, erected by some of the nation’s largest corporations—Gulf, Texaco, and Mobil—have punctuated the skyline for over half a century. American historians now know much about the boomtowns that rapidly grew around e…
Environmental Justice as a Way of Seeing
Many if not most environmental historians now identify or sympathize with the “environmental justice” advocates. That movement's impact on the field has ramified especially in new fusionist scholarship at the intersection of social and environmental history. We environmental historians continue to reckon with how, not just in its characteristic topics or emphases but in its broadest implications, environmental justice is stirring new ways of seei…
Introduction
The Artificial Nature of Fluoridated Water
An exercise in "historical ontology," this paper charts the contrasting ways fluoridated water and its effects crystallized as objects of knowledge and concern in three quite different realms over the mid twentieth century. Among U.S. health officials and experts, fluoridated water emerged and stabilized as a public health goal, preventing tooth decay. Indian doctors and scientists defined it as a public health problem, causing "skeletal fluorosi…
September 11 and the History of Hazard
Health professionals carved up the postdisaster world of Manhattanites in contrasting ways, describing its new contours in expert terms of toxins, populations and pathology. Among their discoveries were a “World Trade Center cough” and a dramatic increase in psychological ailments. But precisely their focus on the body or the psyche, along with specific, measurable bits of the urban environment known to have disease links, such as asbestos or ant…
Brush with Death
What will a history of public health look like when it departs from models forged on acute, infectious disease and takes on those conditions so prominent in post-World War II practice, when awareness of subclinical toxicity was combined with a sweeping sense of toxins' environmental spread? Brush with Death, our first book-length study of the health debates over lead in this country throughout the past century, lays open this new terrain. A well-…
Radium Girls, Women and Industrial Health Reform
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 2, Summer 1999
Thoreau's Body
Hazards of the Job
Journal Article Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science. By Christopher C. Sellers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press and Safety First: Technology, Labor, and Business in the Building of American Work Safety, 1870–1939. By Mark Aldrich. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press Get access Alan M. Kraut Alan M. Kraut American University, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
The Nature of the Firm
Business history has never paid much attention to the environment. Brushing aside the firm's reliance and impact on the natural world, early business historians zeroed in on the role of the entrepreneur in big business's rise. They found it easy to truncate, marginalize or altogether ignore the physical processes by which the stuff of nature—“raw” materials—was carved or coaxed out of mountains, forests, and deserts, channeled into factories and …
Body, Place and the State
Research Article| May 01 1999 Body, Place and the State: The Makings of an “Environmentalist” Imaginary in the Post-World War II U.S. Christopher Sellers Christopher Sellers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1999) 1999 (74): 31–64. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1999-74-31 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher Sellers; Body, Place and the State: The …
The Nature of the Firm
Business history has never paid much attention to the environment. Brushing aside the firm's reliance and impact on the natural world, early business historians zeroed in on the role of the entrepreneur in big business's rise. They found it easy to truncate, marginalize or altogether ignore the physical processes by which the stuff of nature—“raw” materials—was carved or coaxed out of mountains, forests, and deserts, channeled into factories and …
Fear of Crime and Victimization Among the Elderly in Different Types of Communities
The central issue examined here is the effect that community setting, relative to other factors, has on victimization and fear of crime among the elderly. Findings are from 1,410 in‐home interviews in two retirement communities (age homogeneous) and two age‐heterogeneous communities. Victimization of elderly is low in all communities, and although nearly half of the respondents have some fear of crime, the percentage reporting great fear of crime…
Social Learning Theory and Alcohol Behavior Among the Elderly
Research directly testing Akers's social learning theory has been thus far confined to teenage drug, drinking, and smoking behavior. This study extends the application of social learning theory to older adults' alcohol behavior. Data were gathered through face-to-face interviews of 1,410 people sixty years of age or over living in New Jersey and Florida in either retirement (age homogeneous) or age-integrated communities. A social learning model …
Introduction
The Environmental Protection Agency in the Early Trump Administration
We explore and contextualize changes at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the first 6 months of the Trump administration, arguing that its pro-business direction is enabling a form of regulatory capture. We draw on news articles, public documents, and a rapid response, multisited interview study of current and retired EPA employees to (1) document changes associated with the new administration, (2) contextualize and compare the curre…
Thoreau's Body
The Road to Love Canal
Journal Article The Road to Love Canal: Managing Industrial Waste before EPA. By Craig E. Colten and Peter N. Skinner. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. xiv, 217 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-29271182-4. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-292-71183-2.) Get access Christopher Sellers Christopher Sellers Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Iss…
History of US Presidential Assaults on Modern Environmental Health Protection
The Trump administration has undertaken an assault on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), an agency critical to environmental health. This assault has precedents in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. The early Reagan administration (1981–1983) launched an overt attack on the EPA, combining deregulation with budget and staff cuts, whereas the George W. Bush administration (2001–2008) adopted a subtler approach, undermi…
Discovering environmental cancer
Today, our understanding of and approach to the exogenous causes of cancer are dominated by epidemiological practices that came into widespread use after World War II. This paper examines the forces, considerations, and controversies that shaped postwar risk factor epidemiology in the United States. It is argued that, for all of the new capabilities it brought, this risk factor epidemiology has left us with less of a clinical eye for unrecognized…
Adolescents and sex
This article shows that the rising rate of premarital sex during this century can be accounted for by changes in American social structure. The gap between puberty and marriage has increased, allowing more time for sex to occur. The pervasiveness of sex in the media and at home provides young people with role models who teach about sex. The social antonomy of the young has increased, allowing more opportunity for sex. Medical advances and legal c…
Body, Place and the State
Research Article| May 01 1999 Body, Place and the State: The Makings of an “Environmentalist” Imaginary in the Post-World War II U.S. Christopher Sellers Christopher Sellers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1999) 1999 (74): 31–64. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1999-74-31 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher Sellers; Body, Place and the State: The …
Potentials of local health surveys
This paper provides a state-of-the-art summary of the potentials and limitations of local surveys for assessing health problems in local areas. The information they provide may be helpful for a variety of purposes such as measuring the need for services, planning programs to address these needs, and evaluating their impact. Particular advantages of surveys are that they: provide information on the needs of people who have not sought care; permit …
Data Resistance
The dismantlement of evidence-based environmental governance by the Trump administration requires new forms of activism that uphold science and environmental regulatory agencies while critiquing the politics of knowledge production. The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) emerged after the November 2016 U.S. presidential elections, becoming an organization of over 175 volunteer researchers, technologists, archivists, and activists…
Towards a transnational industrial-hazard history
We argue that industrial hazards have remained an integral feature of the international and ‘global’ economy since the early modern period, and invite historians of science into the study of their history. The growth and dissemination of knowledge about these hazards, as well as the production and trade that generate them, continue to generate deep inequalities in just who is exposed to them, as illustrated by the shifting impact of the asbestos-…
From ‘marginal to marginal’
How damaging was the Trump administration to environmental justice (EJ) efforts and policy? Since federal EJ oversight at the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is governed by executive order, rather than statute, approaches to it have varied by presidential administration. In this paper, we draw on interviews with current and recently retired EPA employees along with staffing and budget data, to examine how EJ has historically b…
Reflections
Petropolis and Environmental Protest in Cross-National Perspective
Driving into Port Arthur or Beaumont, Texas, at night, you encounter a horizon ablaze with the lights of the strange cityscape that is the modern oil refinery. Near the mouth of the Neches River, the refinery’s clumped and turreted towers, erected by some of the nation’s largest corporations—Gulf, Texaco, and Mobil—have punctuated the skyline for over half a century. American historians now know much about the boomtowns that rapidly grew around e…
The Artificial Nature of Fluoridated Water
An exercise in "historical ontology," this paper charts the contrasting ways fluoridated water and its effects crystallized as objects of knowledge and concern in three quite different realms over the mid twentieth century. Among U.S. health officials and experts, fluoridated water emerged and stabilized as a public health goal, preventing tooth decay. Indian doctors and scientists defined it as a public health problem, causing "skeletal fluorosi…
September 11 and the History of Hazard
Health professionals carved up the postdisaster world of Manhattanites in contrasting ways, describing its new contours in expert terms of toxins, populations and pathology. Among their discoveries were a “World Trade Center cough” and a dramatic increase in psychological ailments. But precisely their focus on the body or the psyche, along with specific, measurable bits of the urban environment known to have disease links, such as asbestos or ant…
Potentials of local health surveys
This paper provides a state-of-the-art summary of the potentials and limitations of local surveys for assessing health problems in local areas. The information they provide may be helpful for a variety of purposes such as measuring the need for services, planning programs to address these needs, and evaluating their impact. Particular advantages of surveys are that they: provide information on the needs of people who have not sought care; permit …
Adolescents and sex
This article shows that the rising rate of premarital sex during this century can be accounted for by changes in American social structure. The gap between puberty and marriage has increased, allowing more time for sex to occur. The pervasiveness of sex in the media and at home provides young people with role models who teach about sex. The social antonomy of the young has increased, allowing more opportunity for sex. Medical advances and legal c…
Fear of Crime and Victimization Among the Elderly in Different Types of Communities
The central issue examined here is the effect that community setting, relative to other factors, has on victimization and fear of crime among the elderly. Findings are from 1,410 in‐home interviews in two retirement communities (age homogeneous) and two age‐heterogeneous communities. Victimization of elderly is low in all communities, and although nearly half of the respondents have some fear of crime, the percentage reporting great fear of crime…
Social Learning Theory and Alcohol Behavior Among the Elderly
Research directly testing Akers's social learning theory has been thus far confined to teenage drug, drinking, and smoking behavior. This study extends the application of social learning theory to older adults' alcohol behavior. Data were gathered through face-to-face interviews of 1,410 people sixty years of age or over living in New Jersey and Florida in either retirement (age homogeneous) or age-integrated communities. A social learning model …
Cancer from Beef
Reviewed by: Cancer from Beef: DES, Federal Food Regulation, and Consumer Confidence Christopher Sellers Alan I. Marcus. Cancer from Beef: DES, Federal Food Regulation, and Consumer Confidence. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. x + 235 pp. $38.50. Alan Marcus’s Cancer from Beef illuminates a side of the checkered career of diethylstilbesterol (DES) that may be less familiar to medical historians. Roberta Apfel and Susan Fisher have…
Cancer Wars
Readings in American Health Care
Reviewed by: Readings in American Health Care: Current Issues in Socio-Historical Perspective Christopher Sellers William Rothstein, ed. Readings in American Health Care: Current Issues in Socio-Historical Perspective. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. xiv + 412 pp. Ill. $49.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paperbound). With the year 2000 fast approaching, the time seems ripe for a collection that does for twentieth-century American medicine and p…
Discovering environmental cancer
Today, our understanding of and approach to the exogenous causes of cancer are dominated by epidemiological practices that came into widespread use after World War II. This paper examines the forces, considerations, and controversies that shaped postwar risk factor epidemiology in the United States. It is argued that, for all of the new capabilities it brought, this risk factor epidemiology has left us with less of a clinical eye for unrecognized…
The Road to Love Canal
Journal Article The Road to Love Canal: Managing Industrial Waste before EPA. By Craig E. Colten and Peter N. Skinner. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. xiv, 217 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-29271182-4. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-292-71183-2.) Get access Christopher Sellers Christopher Sellers Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Iss…
Hazards of the Job
Radium Girls, Women and Industrial Health Reform
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 2, Summer 1999
Thoreau's Body
Hazards of the Job
Journal Article Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science. By Christopher C. Sellers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press and Safety First: Technology, Labor, and Business in the Building of American Work Safety, 1870–1939. By Mark Aldrich. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press Get access Alan M. Kraut Alan M. Kraut American University, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
The Nature of the Firm
Business history has never paid much attention to the environment. Brushing aside the firm's reliance and impact on the natural world, early business historians zeroed in on the role of the entrepreneur in big business's rise. They found it easy to truncate, marginalize or altogether ignore the physical processes by which the stuff of nature—“raw” materials—was carved or coaxed out of mountains, forests, and deserts, channeled into factories and …
Body, Place and the State
Research Article| May 01 1999 Body, Place and the State: The Makings of an “Environmentalist” Imaginary in the Post-World War II U.S. Christopher Sellers Christopher Sellers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1999) 1999 (74): 31–64. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1999-74-31 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher Sellers; Body, Place and the State: The …
Brush with Death
What will a history of public health look like when it departs from models forged on acute, infectious disease and takes on those conditions so prominent in post-World War II practice, when awareness of subclinical toxicity was combined with a sweeping sense of toxins' environmental spread? Brush with Death, our first book-length study of the health debates over lead in this country throughout the past century, lays open this new terrain. A well-…
September 11 and the History of Hazard
Health professionals carved up the postdisaster world of Manhattanites in contrasting ways, describing its new contours in expert terms of toxins, populations and pathology. Among their discoveries were a “World Trade Center cough” and a dramatic increase in psychological ailments. But precisely their focus on the body or the psyche, along with specific, measurable bits of the urban environment known to have disease links, such as asbestos or ant…
Introduction
The Artificial Nature of Fluoridated Water
An exercise in "historical ontology," this paper charts the contrasting ways fluoridated water and its effects crystallized as objects of knowledge and concern in three quite different realms over the mid twentieth century. Among U.S. health officials and experts, fluoridated water emerged and stabilized as a public health goal, preventing tooth decay. Indian doctors and scientists defined it as a public health problem, causing "skeletal fluorosi…
Environmental Justice as a Way of Seeing
Many if not most environmental historians now identify or sympathize with the “environmental justice” advocates. That movement's impact on the field has ramified especially in new fusionist scholarship at the intersection of social and environmental history. We environmental historians continue to reckon with how, not just in its characteristic topics or emphases but in its broadest implications, environmental justice is stirring new ways of seei…
DDT and the American century
DDT and the American century: Global health, environmental politics, and the pesticide that changed the world, by David Kinkela, Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 2011, 272 pp
Towards a transnational industrial-hazard history
We argue that industrial hazards have remained an integral feature of the international and ‘global’ economy since the early modern period, and invite historians of science into the study of their history. The growth and dissemination of knowledge about these hazards, as well as the production and trade that generate them, continue to generate deep inequalities in just who is exposed to them, as illustrated by the shifting impact of the asbestos-…
Petropolis and Environmental Protest in Cross-National Perspective
Driving into Port Arthur or Beaumont, Texas, at night, you encounter a horizon ablaze with the lights of the strange cityscape that is the modern oil refinery. Near the mouth of the Neches River, the refinery’s clumped and turreted towers, erected by some of the nation’s largest corporations—Gulf, Texaco, and Mobil—have punctuated the skyline for over half a century. American historians now know much about the boomtowns that rapidly grew around e…
From Poison to Carcinogen
Benzene's history resembles that of many another substance discovered, industrially exploited, and then increasingly regulated across the world over the last two centuries of the chemical industry's development. This paper connects the evolving patterns of its production, use, and oversight through the twentieth century to a certain transformation in the understanding of its effects on human health. Early on, when only some of benzene's health ef…
To Place or Not to Place
Reviewing recent, overlapping work by historians of medicine and health and of environmental history, this article proposes a further agenda upon which scholars in both fields may converge. Both environmental and medical historians can seek to understand the past two centuries of medical history in terms of a seesaw dialogue over the ways and means by which physicians and other health professionals did, and did not, consider the influence of plac…
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