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About this book
How does mercury get out of the ground and into our food? Is tuna safe to eat? What was the Minamata Disaster? Mercury Pollution: A Transdisciplinary Treatment addresses these questions and more. The editors weave interdisciplinary threads into a tapestry that presents a more complete picture of the effects of mercury pollution and provides new way
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- The Editors
- Contributors
- Key to Maps and Related Chapters
- Chapter 1: When the Scientific Vantage Is Not Enough
- Chapter 2: Dangerous Attractions : Mercury in Human History
- Chapter 3: Human Impacts on Earth’s Natural Mercury Cycle
- Chapter 4: Mercury by the Numbers
- Chapter 5: Is Tuna Safe? A Sociological Analysis of Federal Fish Advisories
- Chapter 6: How USA Today Constructs the Problem of Mercury Pollution : A Sociological Analysis of Risk and Blame
- Chapter 7: Input/Output : Researching and Communicating Mercury Issues Online
- Chapter 8: Making Mercury Visible : The Minamata Documentaries of Tsuchimoto Noriaki
- Chapter 9: Mercury-Inspired Arts
- Chapter 10: Writing as Environmental Stewardship
- Chapter 11: The Necessity of International Agreement
- Afterword: Through Your Eyes
- Back Cover