Toxic airs : body, place, planet in historical perspective / edited by James Rodger Fleming and Ann Johnson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fleming, James Rodger, editor.

Johnson, Ann, 1965-2016, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Air--Pollution--History.

Air.

Environmental sciences--History.

Environmental sciences.

History.

Science--History.

Science.

Air--Pollution.

Physical Description:

xiv, 284 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2014]

Summary:

"Toxic Airs brings together historians of medicine, environmental historians, historians of science and technology, and interdisciplinary scholars to address atmospheric issues at a spectrum of scales from body to place to planet. The chapters analyze airborne and atmospheric threats posed to humans. The contributors demonstrate how conceptions of toxicity have evolved over many centuries and how humans have both created and mitigated toxins in the air"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Corrupt Air, Poisonous Places, and the Toxic Breath of Witches in Late Medieval Medicine and Theology / Brenda Gardenour Walter Walter, Brenda Gardenour 1

2 Surgeon Reginald Orton and the Pathology of Deadly Air: The Contest for Context in Environmental Health / Christopher Hamlin Hamlin, Christopher 23

3 Better to Cry Than Die? The Paradoxes of Tear Gas in the Vietnam Era / Roger Eardley-Pryor Eardley-Pryor, Roger 50

4 Toxic Soldiers: Chemicals and the Bodies of Gulf War Syndrome Sufferers / Susie Kilshaw Kilshaw, Susie 77

5 Deciphering the Chemistry of Los Angeles Smog, 1945-1995 / Peter Brimblecombe Brimblecombe, Peter 95

6 Chasing Molecules: Chemistry and Technology for Automotive Emissions Control / Richard Chase Dunn Dunn, Richard Chase, Ann Johnson Johnson, Ann 109

7 CHESS Lessons: Controversy and Compromise in the Making of the EPA / Jongmin Lee Lee, Jongmin 127

8 A Heightened Controversy: Nuclear Weapons Testing, Radioactive Tracers, and the Dynamic Stratosphere / E. Jerry Jessee Jessee, E. Jerry 152

9 Burning Rain: The Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution Project / Rachel Rothschild Rothschild, Rachel 181

10 The Transmutation of Ozone in the Early 1970s / Matthias Dörries Dörries, Matthias 208

11 Who Owns the Air? Contemporary Art Addresses the Climate Crisis / Andrea Polli Polli, Andrea 230

12 Carbon "Die"-Oxide: The Personal and the Planetary / James Rodger Fleming Fleming, James Rodger 252.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822962908

082296290X

OCLC:

868982179