Toxic Airs

Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective

By: James Rodger Fleming (Editor), Ann Johnson (Editor)

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Paperback | 23 March 2014

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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.

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Toxic Airs is not merely a catalog of aerial concerns, but a full examination of how humans, in different times and places, have tried to address perceived problems with the air they breathe.-- "Bulletin for the History of Chemistry"
'All that is solid melts into air, ' wrote Marx and Engels, evoking a sense of air as a medium where things disappear, evaporate, and lose their impact. In Toxic Airs, the contributors convincingly argue otherwise, that air is substantial. This rich and diverse interdisciplinary exploration of the history, culture, and science of air and atmosphere makes visible the complex relationship of humans and environment.-- "Finn Arne J?rgensen, Umea University, Sweden"
The authors have produced a marvellously wide-ranging book that opens up a series of questions for scholars of medico-environmental history. Not the least of these is what the relationship between the history of medicine and environmental history should be.-- "Social History of Medicine"
Uniformly well written, the book is a valuable resource for those interested in relationships between policy and science. Highly recommended.-- "Choice"

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