Müller-Pohl, Simone (Author)
Borowy, Iris (Author)
Armiero, Marco (Author)
Mart, Michelle (Author)
Janelle Lamoreaux (Author)
Justine Philip (Author)
This forum unites the articles of six scholars whose different, but complementary, approaches shed light on some key themes of the environmental history of toxicity. One recurrent line of questioning asks who is to blame for the steady increase in poisons in the global environment over the past century. While Marco Armiero identifies capitalism as the main driving force, Michelle Mart and Iris Borowy see more deep-seated social and psychological dynamics at work. Simone Müller and Justine Philip take a middle position, while Janelle Lamoreaux does not regard the economic context as particularly relevant at all, pointing instead to the gendered way in which toxicants have been perceived and experienced.In a second, related thread running through the articles, the authors debate how to balance notions of victimization and agency. One approach focuses on the exposure to toxicants suffered by marginalized social groups and nonhuman actors, who are forced to shoulder a disproportionate toxic burden. Another approach highlights the degree to which the release of poisons has not only been an unintended by-product of various activities but also a tool, deliberately used to achieve multiple purposes.Several authors present specific concepts that they have developed as a way to frame various aspects of these discussions, including “wasteocene” (Armiero), the “toxic commons” (Müller), and the “fateful triangle of health” (Borowy). All contributors address the environmental history of toxicants not only as academics but also as participants of a toxin-filled world, both subjects and objects of the developments they analyze.
...MoreArticle Justine Philip (July 2021) When Conservation Turns Violent: Examining New Zealand’s Use of Toxins in Defense of the Environment. Environmental History (pp. 451-460).
Article Iris Borowy (July 2021) Making Sense of the History of Toxicity: How Poisonous Pasts May Have Touched Me and Everybody Else. Environmental History (pp. 411-424).
Article Marco Armiero (July 2021) The Case for the Wasteocene. Environmental History (pp. 425-430).
Article Michelle Mart (July 2021) Why Do We Poison Ourselves?. Environmental History (pp. 431-436).
Article Janelle Lamoreaux (July 2021) Reproducing Toxicity. Environmental History (pp. 437-443).
Article Müller-Pohl, Simone (July 2021) Toxic Commons: Toxic Global Inequality in the Age of the Anthropocene. Environmental History (pp. 444-450).
Book
Parascandola, John;
(2012)
King of Poisons: A History of Arsenic
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Article
Michelle Mart;
(July 2021)
Why Do We Poison Ourselves?
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Article
Marco Armiero;
(July 2021)
The Case for the Wasteocene
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Article
Janelle Lamoreaux;
(July 2021)
Reproducing Toxicity
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Book
Ross, Benjamin;
Amter, Steven;
(2010)
The Polluters: The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment
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Book
José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez;
(2019)
¿Entre el fiscal y el verdugo?: Mateu Orfila i Rotger (1787-1853) y la toxicología del siglo XIX
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Chapter
Sellers, Christopher;
(2013)
The Cold War Over the Worker's Body: Cross-National Clashes over Maximum Allowable Concentrations in the Post-World War II Era
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Thesis
Yan Liu;
(2015)
Toxic Cures: Poisons and Medicines in Medieval China
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Article
Mar Cuenca-Lorente;
(2017)
Poisons, Trials and Experts: Pere Mata I Fontanet (1811–1877) and Spanish Nineteenth-Century Toxicology
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Article
Serena Buzzi;
(2019)
Farmaci tossici e rimedi contro i veleni nelle Eclogae dello Ps. Oribasio
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Article
José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez;
(2016)
From Forensic Toxicology to Biological Chemistry: Normal Arsenic and the Hazards of Sensitivity During the Nineteenth Century
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Book
Emsley, John;
(2005)
The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison
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Book
Emsley, John;
(2008)
Molecules of Murder: Criminal Molecules and Classic Cases
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Article
Arup K. Chatterjee;
(2022)
Aconite in Victorian Tropical Toxicology
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Book
Frederick W. Gibbs;
(2018)
Poison, Medicine, and Disease in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
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Article
Bertomeu-Sánchez, José Ramón;
(2013)
Managing Uncertainty in the Academy and the Courtroom: Normal Arsenic and Nineteenth-Century Toxicology
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Book
Burney, Ian;
(2006)
Poison, Detection, and the Victorian Imagination
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Book
Brinda Sarathy;
Vivien Hamilton;
Janet Farrell Brodie;
(2018)
Inevitably Toxic: Historical Perspectives on Contamination, Exposure, and Expertise
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Thesis
Gibbs, Frederick W.;
(2009)
Medical Understandings of Poison circa 1250--1600
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Article
J. F. M. Clark;
(2017)
Pesticides, Pollution and the UK's Silent Spring, 1963–1964: Poison in the Garden of England
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