Hazardous chemicals : agents of risk and change, 1800-2000 / edited by Ernst Homburg and Elisabeth Vaupel.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 407 pages)

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Subject(s)
Editor
Series
  • Environment in history ; v. 17. [More in this series]
  • The environment in history: international perspectives ; volume 17
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 13, 2019).
Contents
  • Hazardous Chemicals
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction. A Conceptual and Regulatory Overview, 1800-2000
  • Part I. From Acute to Chronic Poisoning
  • Chapter 1. Schweinfurt Green and the Sanitary Police
  • Chapter 2. The Banning of White Lead
  • Chapter 3. Old Situations, New Complications
  • Part II. Discovering New Health Impacts
  • Chapter 4. Discovering Chemical Carcinogenesis
  • Chapter 5. Cyclamates
  • Chapter 6. Cadmium Poisoning in Japan
  • Chapter 7. Dioxins
  • Part III. New Products, New Effects
  • Chapter 8. Organophosphates
  • Chapter 9. A Tale of Two Nations
  • Chapter 10. War and Peace
  • Chapter 11. Raising a Stink
  • Conclusion
  • Index.
ISBN
  • 1789203201
  • 9781789203202 ((electronic book))
LCCN
2019017289
OCLC
1097365808
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