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Toxic airs : body, place, planet in historical perspective /
"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 h...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Corrupt air, poisonous places, and the toxic breath of witches in late Medieval medicine and theology / Brenda Gardenour Walter
- Surgeon Reginald Orton and the pathology of deadly air : the contest for context in environmental health / Christopher Hamlin
- Better to cry than die? : the paradoxes of tear gas in the Vietnam era / Roger Eardley-Pryor
- Toxic soldiers : chemicals and the bodies of Gulf War syndrome sufferers / Susie Kilshaw
- Deciphering the chemistry of Los Angeles smog, 1945-1995 / Peter Brimblecombe
- Chasing molecules : chemistry and technology for automotive emissions control / Richard Chase Dunn and Ann Johnson
- CHESS lessons : controversy and compromise in the making of the EPA / Jongmin Lee
- A heightened controversy : nuclear weapons testing, radioactive tracers, and the dynamic stratosphere / E. Jerry Jessee
- Burning rain : the long-range transboundary air pollution project / Rachel Rothschild
- The transmutation of ozone in the early 1970s / Matthias Dörries
- Who owns the air? : contemporary art addresses the climate crisis / Andrea Polli
- Carbon "die"-oxide : the personal and the planetary / James Rodger Fleming.