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Toxic histories : poison and pollution in modern India /
"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 1830s and 1950s. Against the background of India's 'poiso...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Science in history (Cambridge University Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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 1830s and 1950s. Against the background of India's 'poison culture' and periodic 'poison panics', David Arnold considers why many familiar substances came to be regarded under colonialism as dangerous poisons. As well as the criminal uses of poison, Toxic Histories shows how European and Indian scientists were instrumental in creating a distinctive system of forensic toxicology and medical jurisprudence designed for Indian needs and conditions, and how local, as well as universal, poison knowledge could serve constructive scientific and medical purposes. Arnold reflects on how the 'fear of a poisoned world' spilt over into concerns about contamination and pollution, giving ideas of toxicity a wider social and political significance that has continued into India's postcolonial era."-- |
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| Notas: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Feb 2016). |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 241 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-236) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781316411414 1316411419 9781316498804 1316498808 9781316497487 1316497488 1107126975 9781107126978 1107565731 9781107565739 9781316496824 1316496821 1316497151 9781316497159 |