TY  - BOOK
AU  - Böschen,Stefan
AU  - Hay,Amy M.
AU  - Homburg,Ernst
AU  - Kaji,Masanori
AU  - Lestel,Laurence
AU  - Mertens,Joost
AU  - Morris,Peter J.T.
AU  - Rowe Davis,Frederick
AU  - Schwerin,Alexander von
AU  - Smith,John K.
AU  - Stoff,Heiko
AU  - Travis,Anthony S.
AU  - Vaupel,Elisabeth
AU  - Warren,Christian
TI  - Hazardous Chemicals: Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000 
T2  - Environment in History: International Perspectives
SN  - 9781789203196
U1  - 363.1709 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Hazardous substances
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - History
KW  - Poisons
KW  - SCIENCE / History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Chemical Hazards
KW  - Chemical Industry
KW  - Harmful Chemicals
KW  - Industrial Chemistry
KW  - Poisonous Substances
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures and Tables --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction. A Conceptual and Regulatory Overview, 1800–2000 --; Part I. From Acute to Chronic Poisoning: Regulating Old Poisons in the Industrial Age --; 1. Schweinfurt Green and the Sanitary Police: The Fight against Copper Arsenite Pigments --; 2. The Banning of White Lead: French and International Regulations --; 3. Old Situations, New Complications: Lead and Lead Poisoning in a Changing World --; Part II. Discovering New Health Impacts: Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, and More in Times of Uncertainty and Non-knowledge --; 4. Discovering Chemical Carcinogenesis: The Case of Aromatic Amines --; 5. Cyclamates: A Tale of Uncertain Knowledge (1930s–1980s) --; 6. Cadmium Poisoning in Japan: Itai-itai Disease and Beyond --; 7. Dioxins: The “Total Poison” --; Part III. New Products, New Effects: The Discovery of the Environment and the Long Shadow of the 1960s --; 8. Organophosphates --; 9. A Tale of Two Nations: DDT in the United States and the United Kingdom --; 10. War and Peace: The Phenoxy Herbicides --; 11. Raising a Stink: The Short, Happy Life of MTBE --; Conclusion --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789203202?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789203202
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781789203202/original
ER  -