Making Sense of the History of Toxicity: How Poisonous Pasts May Have Touched Me and Everybody Else (July 2021)
Borowy, Iris (Author)
Environmental History
Volume: 26
Issue: 3
Pages: 411-424
Edition Details: Forum: Of Perpetrators and Victims: Toxicity in Environmental History
Language: English
Sometimes, academic topics are personal. I grew up with the story, frequently told by my mother, about how she suffered from insomnia when pregnant with me, how she was happy that, earlier on, her doctor had prescribed a drug that helped her fall asleep in a particularly pleasant manner without any apparent side effects, and how one night she was horrified to find out that this drug was thalidomide, very much in the news at the time under its market name of Contergan, for its tendency to cause birth defects. Overall, an estimated eight to twelve thousand children were born with missing limbs, with hands growing from their shoulders, with no legs at all, or with similar deformations as a consequence of the drug. Approximately, five thousand victims survived childhood, of which between twenty-three hundred and twenty-four hundred grew up in Germany. How many died during pregnancy or were aborted is unknown.
...MoreArticle Müller-Pohl, Simone; Iris Borowy; Marco Armiero; Michelle Mart; Janelle Lamoreaux; Justine Philip (July 2021) Of Perpetrators and Victims: Toxicity in Environmental History. Environmental History (pp. 409-410).
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