Book ID: CBB000951780

Is Arsenic an Aphrodisiac? The Sociochemistry of an Element (2008)

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Cullen, William (Author)


Royal Society of Chemistry


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: xvi + 412 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Shows how the element and its compounds have become embedded in the human social world throughout history and in different cultures.


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Authors & Contributors
Bertomeu Sánchez, José Ramón
Mets, Ave
Hijmans, Sarah N.
Mainz, Vera V.
Pulkkinen, Karoliina
Zhu, Jing
Journals
Substantia: An International Journal of the History of Chemistry
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
HOST: Journal of History of Science and Technology
Foundations of Chemistry
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Springer International Publishing
University of Chicago Press
Imperial College Press
Brill
Concepts
Chemistry
Chemical elements
Periodic system of the elements; periodic table
Arsenic
Poisoning
Science and society
People
Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich
Meyer, Julius Lothar von
Seubert, Karl
Schröder, Johann
Pfaundler, Leopold
Paracelsus, Theophrast von Hohenheim
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
21st century
20th century, early
Jin Dynasty (China, 265-420)
Places
France
Francoist Spain
Sweden
Russia
Germany
Great Britain
Institutions
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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