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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Johnson, Ann, 1965-, Fleming, James Rodger
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 0 |t Corrupt air, poisonous places, and the toxic breath of witches in late Medieval medicine and theology /  |r Brenda Gardenour Walter --  |t Surgeon Reginald Orton and the pathology of deadly air : the contest for context in environmental health /  |r Christopher Hamlin --  |t Better to cry than die? : the paradoxes of tear gas in the Vietnam era /  |r Roger Eardley-Pryor --  |t Toxic soldiers : chemicals and the bodies of Gulf War syndrome sufferers /  |r Susie Kilshaw --  |t Deciphering the chemistry of Los Angeles smog, 1945-1995 /  |r Peter Brimblecombe --  |t Chasing molecules : chemistry and technology for automotive emissions control /  |r Richard Chase Dunn and Ann Johnson --  |t CHESS lessons : controversy and compromise in the making of the EPA /  |r Jongmin Lee --  |t A heightened controversy : nuclear weapons testing, radioactive tracers, and the dynamic stratosphere /  |r E. Jerry Jessee --  |t Burning rain : the long-range transboundary air pollution project /  |r Rachel Rothschild --  |t The transmutation of ozone in the early 1970s /  |r Matthias Dörries --  |t Who owns the air? : contemporary art addresses the climate crisis /  |r Andrea Polli --  |t Carbon "die"-oxide : the personal and the planetary /  |r James Rodger Fleming. 
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