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• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 40,5 Mb
• Release Date : 15 February 2016

An analysis of the challenge that India's poison culture posed for colonial rule and toxicology's creation of a public role for science.

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 27,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 May 2016

"Toxic Histories combines social, scientific, medical and environmental history to demonstrate the critical importance of poison and pollution to colonial governance, scientific authority and public anxiety in India between the 1830

• Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
• File Size : 45,7 Mb
• Release Date : 16 October 2018

Not a day goes by that humans aren’t exposed to toxins in our environment—be it at home, in the car, or workplace. But what about those toxic places

• Publisher : University of Washington Press
• File Size : 28,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 July 2011

Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relationships -- and are

• Publisher : UNC Press Books
• File Size : 49,6 Mb
• Release Date : 17 February 2022

From the mid-nineteenth until the mid-twentieth century, environmentally unregulated industrial capitalism produced outsized environmental risks for poor and working-class Detroiters, made all the worse for African Americans by housing and

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• File Size : 23,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 March 2021

Nerve agents are the world's deadliest means of chemical warfare. Nazi Germany developed the first military-grade nerve agents and massive industry for their manufacture--yet, strangely, the Third Reich never used

• Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
• File Size : 47,6 Mb
• Release Date : 23 March 2014

Toxic Airs brings together historians of medicine, environmental historians, historians of science and technology, and interdisciplinary scholars to address atmospheric issues on a spectrum of scales from body to place

• Publisher : NYU Press
• File Size : 50,6 Mb
• Release Date : 26 May 2024

From St. Louis to New Orleans, from Baltimore to Oklahoma City, there are poor and minority neighborhoods so beset by pollution that just living in them can be hazardous to

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 25,7 Mb
• Release Date : 26 May 2024

In spite of decades of research on toxicants, along with the growing role of scientific expertise in public policy and the unprecedented rise in the number of national and international

• Publisher : Columbia University Press
• File Size : 20,5 Mb
• Release Date : 29 March 2016

Initially marketed as a life-saving advancement, flame retardants are now mired in controversy. Some argue that data show the chemicals are unsafe while others continue to support their use. The