Fleming, James Rodger (Editor)
Johnson, Ann (Editor)
University of Pittsburgh Press
Physical Details: xiv + 284 pp.; ill.; maps
Language: English
Toxic Airs brings together historians of medicine, environmental historians, historians of science and technology, and interdisciplinary scholars to address atmospheric issues at a spectrum of scales from body to place to planet. The chapters analyze airborne and atmospheric threats posed to humans. The contributors demonstrate how conceptions of toxicity have evolved over many centuries and how humans have both created and mitigated toxins in the air
...MoreReview Melanie A. Kiechle (2014) Review of "Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective". Bulletin for the History of Chemistry (p. 168).
Review Caroline Williams (2015) Review of "Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective". Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology (pp. 183-184).
Review Timothy Cooper (2015) Review of "Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective". Social History of Medicine (pp. 952-953).
Review Thomas Le Roux (2015) Review of "Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 894-895).
Review Peter Reed (2016) Review of "Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 150-151).
Essay Review Guillem-Llobat, Ximo (2015) Science and the Regulation of Toxicants in Historical Perspective. Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (pp. 287-291).
Chapter Walter, Brenda Gardenour (2014) Corrupt Air, Poisonous Places, and the Toxic Breath of Witches in Late Medieval Medicine and Theology. In: Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective (pp. 1-22).
Chapter Hamlin, Christopher S. (2014) Surgeon Reginald Orton and the Pathology of Deadly Air: The Contest for Context in Environmental Health. In: Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective (pp. 23-49).
Chapter Eardley-Pryor, Roger (2014) Better to Cry Than Die? The Paradoxes of Tear Gas in the Vietnam Era. In: Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective (pp. 50-76).
Chapter Kilshaw, Susie (2014) Toxic Soldiers: Chemicals and the Bodies of Gulf War Syndrome Sufferers. In: Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective (pp. 77-94).
Chapter Brimblecombe, Peter (2014) Deciphering the Chemistry of Los Angeles Smog, 1945-1995. In: Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective (pp. 95-105).
Chapter Dunn, Richard Chase; Johnson, Ann (2014) Chasing Molecules: Chemistry and Technology for Automotive Emissions Control. In: Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective (pp. 109-126).
Chapter Lee, Jongmin (2014) CHESS Lessons: Controversy and Compromise in the Making of the EPA. In: Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective (pp. 127-151).
Chapter Jessee, E. Jerry (2014) A Heightened Controversy: Nuclear Weapons Testing, Radioactive Tracers, and the Dynamic Stratosphere. In: Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective (pp. 152-180).
Chapter Rothschild, Rachel (2014) Burning Rain: The Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution Project. In: Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective (pp. 181-207).
Chapter Dörries, Matthias (2014) The Transmutation of Ozone in the Early 1970s. In: Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective (pp. 208-229).
Chapter Polli, Andrea (2014) Who Owns the Air? Contemporary Art Addresses the Climate Crisis. In: Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective (pp. 230-251).
Chapter Fleming, James Rodger (2014) Carbon “die”-Oxide: the Personal and The Planetary. In: Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective (pp. 252-270).
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