Hazardous Chemicals : : Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000 /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Böschen, Stefan,
Hay, Amy M.,
Homburg, Ernst,
Kaji, Masanori,
Lestel, Laurence,
Mertens, Joost,
Morris, Peter J. T.,
Rowe Davis, Frederick,
Schwerin, Alexander von,
Smith, John K.,
Stoff, Heiko,
Travis, Anthony S.,
Vaupel, Elisabeth,
Warren, Christian,
HerausgeberIn:
Homburg, Ernst,
Vaupel, Elisabeth,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Environment in History: International Perspectives ; 17
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Physical Description:1 online resource (422 p.)
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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

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