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Article: Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago.(Book Review)
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- Social Forces
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- June 1, 2003
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Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago.
By Eric Klinenberg. University of Chicago Press, 2002. 305 pp. $27.50.
Faced with over 700 heat-induced deaths in one hot summer week in Chicago in July of 1995, Heat Wave, by Eric Klinenberg, takes on the sociologically grisly act of asking how and why. This masterful study of the intersection of the political and the ecological reveals just how important it is that sociologists look not just at trends or patterns over time, but at specific events. Klinenberg devotes individual chapters to separate organs of this social body of the city of Chicago: chapters on urban housing and on specific ...