Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective by Fleming, James Rodger

Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822962908)

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Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective by Fleming, James Rodger

Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective

$55.00
Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective by Fleming, James Rodger

Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective

$55.00
Format: Paperback
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Toxic Airs brings together historians of medicine, environmental historians, historians of science and technology, and interdisciplinary scholars to address atmospheric issues on a spectrum of scales from body to place to planet. The chapters analyze airborne and atmospheric threats posed to humans, and contributors demonstrate how conceptions of toxicity have evolved and how humans have both created and mitigated toxins in the air. Specific topics discussed include medieval beliefs in the pestilent breath of witches, malarial theory in India, domestic and military use of tear gas, Gulf War Syndrome, Los Angeles smog, automotive emissions control, the epidemiological effects of air pollution, transboundary air pollution, ozone depletion, the contributions of contemporary artists to climate awareness, and the toxic history of carbon "die"-oxide. Overall, the essays provide a wide-ranging historical study of interest to students and scholars of many disciplines.

Author: James Rodger Fleming
ISBN-10: 082296290X
ISBN-13: 9780822962908
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 03/23/2014
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d

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Choice 12/01/2014 pg. 635
By James Rodger Fleming
By James Rodger Fleming
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James Rodger Fleming is a professor of science, technology, and society at Colby College and a visiting lecturer and officer at Columbia University. His most recent book is Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control, winner of the Sally Hacker Book Prize from the Society for the History of Technology and the Lewis J. Battan Author's Award from the American Meteorological Society.

Ann Johnson is an associate professor of history and philosophy at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of Hitting the Brakes: Engineering Design and the Production of Knowledge and has served as an associate editor for the journals Technology and Culture and Engineering Studies and on the editorial boards of Osiris, Transfers, and Synthesis, a book series in the history of chemistry.

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