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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464652003321

Titolo

Toxic airs : body, place, planet in historical perspective / / edited by James Rodger Fleming and Ann Johnson ; Peter Brimblecombe [and twelve others], contributors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8229-7952-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 pages)

Disciplina

363.739/2

Soggetti

Air - Pollution - History

Environmental sciences - History

Science - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Toxic Airs brings together historians of medicine, environmental historians, historians of science and technology, and interdisciplinary scholars to address atmospheric issues at a spectrum of scales from body to place to planet. The chapters analyze airborne and atmospheric threats posed to humans. The contributors demonstrate how conceptions of toxicity have evolved over many centuries and how humans have both created and mitigated toxins in the air"--