Ernst (Hrsg.) Homburg

Hazardous Chemicals

Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000

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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 demonstr… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Vaupel, Elisabeth (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-78920-320-2
EAN: 9781789203202
Produktnummer: 29863097
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 422 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 4'794 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Reihenbandnummer: 17

Über den Autor

Ernst Homburg is Professor of History of Science and Technology Emeritus at Maastricht University. His scholarly work has included the co-editorship of two multivolume book series on the history of technology in the Netherlands, as well as of New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (2007), and Solvay: History of a Multinational Family Firm (2012, with Kenneth Bertrams and Nicolas Coupain).