Word: klinenberg
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...weak to be saved. The August vacation period had lowered the staffing levels of rescue squads and hospitals. And well before that, many elderly people had already become cut off from regular human contact. "Heat waves reveal conditions that are always present but difficult to perceive," notes sociologist Eric Klinenberg, author of Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago - a hot spell that killed over 700 in 1995. "Primary among those is the rise of an elderly isolated population that lives at the margins of major cities." The remainder of the fatalities - between 30% and 50% - came from...
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