Toxic Airs
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Toxic Airs

Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective

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eBook - PDF

Toxic Airs

Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. Corrupt Air, Poisonous Places, and the Toxic Breath of Witches in Late Medieval Medicine and Theology - Brenda Gardenour Walter
  5. 2. Surgeon Reginald Orton and the Pathology of Deadly Air: The Contest for Context in Environmental Health - Christopher Hamlin
  6. 3. Better to Cry Than Die? : The Paradoxes of Tear Gas in the Vietnam Era - Roger Eardley-Pryor
  7. 4. Toxic Soldiers: Chemicals and the Bodies of Gulf War Syndrome Sufferers - Susie Kilshaw
  8. 5. Deciphering the Chemistry of Los Angeles Smog, 1945–1995 - Peter Brimblecombe
  9. 6. Chasing Molecules: Chemistry and Technology for Automotive Emissions Control - Richard Chase Dunn and Ann Johnson
  10. 7. CHESS Lessons: Controversy and Compromise in the Making of the EPA - Jongmin Lee
  11. 8. A Heightened Controversy: Nuclear Weapons Testing, Radioactive Tracers, and the Dynamic Stratosphere - E. Jerry Jessee
  12. 9. Burning Rain: The Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution Project - Rachel Rothschild
  13. 10. The Transmutation of Ozone in the Early 1970s - Matthias Dörries
  14. 11. Who Owns the Air? : Contemporary Art Addresses the Climate Crisis - Andrea Polli
  15. 12. Carbon “Die”-Oxide: The Personal and the Planetary - James Rodger Fleming
  16. Contributors
  17. Index