A mixture of sociology, epidemiology, and personal anecdotes of those who survived or died during a heat wave in a modern US city. Very moving, and does an excellent job of convincing the reader that social isolation and a lack of support for vulnerable populations (most particularly, the elderly po...
Klinenberg does an amazing job of examining many of the causes of the horrific death toll from the Chicago heatwave. Social epidemiology, if you will. I found if fascinating.
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