Hazardous Chemicals : : Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000 / / ed. by Ernst Homburg, Elisabeth Vaupel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Böschen, Stefan,; Hay, Amy M.,; Homburg, Ernst,; Kaji, Masanori,; Lestel, Laurence,; Mertens, Joost,; Morris, Peter J. T.,; Rowe Davis, Frederick,; Schwerin, Alexander von,; Smith, John K.,; Stoff, Heiko,; Travis, Anthony S.,; Vaupel, Elisabeth,; Warren, Christian,
• HerausgeberIn: Homburg, Ernst,; Vaupel, Elisabeth,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Environment in History: International Perspectives ; 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (422 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789203202; 9783110997729
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789203202?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Ernst Homburg, Elisabeth Vaupel.

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.