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

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

Berghahn Books
Publication date: 2019
Language: English

ISBN: 9781789203196

Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 422

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Environmental pollution Environmental sciences Change (philosophy) Science and society Carcinogens Toxins and antitoxins Chemical pollution Chemistry Risk 20th century 19th century

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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