Book ID: CBB746037618

Hazardous Chemicals: Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000 (2019)

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Homburg, Ernst (Editor)
Vaupel, Elisabeth Christine (Editor)


Berghahn Books


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 422
Language: English

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 notorious and little-known chemicals, the chapters in this collection investigate the emergence of specific toxic, pathogenic, carcinogenic, and ecologically harmful chemicals as well as the scientific, cultural and legislative responses they have prompted. Each study situates chemical hazards in a long-term and transnational framework and demonstrates the importance of considering both the natural and the social contexts in which their histories have unfolded.

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Review Adam M. Romero (January 2022) Review of "Hazardous Chemicals: Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000". Technology and Culture (pp. 263-264). unapi

Review Arnold, David J. (2020) Review of "Hazardous Chemicals: Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 651-652). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Mart, Michelle
Murphy, Mark A.
Marianne Sullivan
Arthur Firstenberg
Jarrige, François
Rothschild, Rachel Emma
Concepts
Environmental pollution
Chemical pollution
Science and society
Chemistry
Public health
Toxins and antitoxins
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
United States
Idaho (U.S.)
West Germany
Washington (state, U.S.)
Japan
Germany
Institutions
Hoechst-Aktiengesellschaft
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