Hazardous Chemicals : : Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000 / / ed. by Elisabeth Vaupel, Ernst Homburg.
Although poisonous substances have been a hazard for the whole of human history, it is only with the development and large-scale production of new chemical substances over the last two centuries that toxic, manmade pollutants have become such a varied and widespread danger. Covering a host of both n...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Environment in History: International Perspectives ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction. A Conceptual and Regulatory Overview, 1800–2000
- Part I. From Acute to Chronic Poisoning: Regulating Old Poisons in the Industrial Age
- 1. Schweinfurt Green and the Sanitary Police: The Fight against Copper Arsenite Pigments
- 2. The Banning of White Lead: French and International Regulations
- 3. Old Situations, New Complications: Lead and Lead Poisoning in a Changing World
- Part II. Discovering New Health Impacts: Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, and More in Times of Uncertainty and Non-knowledge
- 4. Discovering Chemical Carcinogenesis: The Case of Aromatic Amines
- 5. Cyclamates: A Tale of Uncertain Knowledge (1930s–1980s)
- 6. Cadmium Poisoning in Japan: Itai-itai Disease and Beyond
- 7. Dioxins: The “Total Poison”
- Part III. New Products, New Effects: The Discovery of the Environment and the Long Shadow of the 1960s
- 8. Organophosphates
- 9. A Tale of Two Nations: DDT in the United States and the United Kingdom
- 10. War and Peace: The Phenoxy Herbicides
- 11. Raising a Stink: The Short, Happy Life of MTBE
- Conclusion
- Index