Inevitably Toxic [[electronic resource] ] : Historical Perspectives on Contamination, Exposure, and Expertise / / edited by Brinda Sarathy, Vivien Hamilton and Janet Farrell Brodie |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pa., : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (328 pages) |
Disciplina | 363.7309 |
Collana | Intersections : histories of environment, science, and technology in the anthropocene |
Soggetto topico |
Pollutants
Pesticides - Environmental aspects Factory and trade waste - History Radiation - History Pollution - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8229-8623-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : toxicity, uncertainty, and expertise / Vivien Hamilton and Brinda Sarathy -- part one. Radiation. X-ray protection in American hospitals / Vivien Hamilton -- Contested knowledge : the Trinity test radiation studies / Janet Farrell Brodie -- Crossroads in San Francisco : the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory and Its afterlives / Lindsey Dillon -- Born opaque : investigating the nuclear accident at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory / William Palmer -- part two. Industrial toxins. Making way for industrial waste : water pollution control in Southern California, 1947-1955 / Brinda Sarathy -- Processing the past into your future : uncovering the hidden consequences of industrial development in the West Texas petrochemical industry / Sarah Stanford-McIntyre -- Vast, incredible damage : herbicides and the U.S. Forest Service / James G. Lewis and Char Miller -- Neighborhood oil drilling and environmental justice in Los Angeles / Bhavna Shamasunder -- part three : Community contestation, expanding expertise. Atomic bomb survivors, medical experts, and the endlessness of radiation illness / Naoko Wake -- On sovereignty, deficits, and dump fires : risk governance in an Arctic "dumpcano" / Alexander Zahara -- Epilogue containment : discussing nuclear waste with Peter Galison / interview by Vivien Hamilton and Brinda Sarathy. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910466667403321 |
Pittsburgh, Pa., : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018] | ||
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Inevitably toxic : historical perspectives on contamination, exposure, and expertise / / edited by Brinda Sarathy, Vivien Hamilton and Janet Farrell Brodie |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (328 pages) |
Disciplina | 363.73 |
Collana | Intersections : histories of environment, science, and technology in the anthropocene |
Soggetto topico |
Pollution - History
Radiation - History Factory and trade waste - History |
ISBN | 0-8229-8623-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : toxicity, uncertainty, and expertise / Vivien Hamilton and Brinda Sarathy -- part one. Radiation. X-ray protection in American hospitals / Vivien Hamilton -- Contested knowledge : the Trinity test radiation studies / Janet Farrell Brodie -- Crossroads in San Francisco : the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory and Its afterlives / Lindsey Dillon -- Born opaque : investigating the nuclear accident at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory / William Palmer -- part two. Industrial toxins. Making way for industrial waste : water pollution control in Southern California, 1947-1955 / Brinda Sarathy -- Processing the past into your future : uncovering the hidden consequences of industrial development in the West Texas petrochemical industry / Sarah Stanford-McIntyre -- Vast, incredible damage : herbicides and the U.S. Forest Service / James G. Lewis and Char Miller -- Neighborhood oil drilling and environmental justice in Los Angeles / Bhavna Shamasunder -- part three : Community contestation, expanding expertise. Atomic bomb survivors, medical experts, and the endlessness of radiation illness / Naoko Wake -- On sovereignty, deficits, and dump fires : risk governance in an Arctic "dumpcano" / Alexander Zahara -- Epilogue containment : discussing nuclear waste with Peter Galison / interview by Vivien Hamilton and Brinda Sarathy. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793389803321 |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2018] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Inevitably toxic : historical perspectives on contamination, exposure, and expertise / / edited by Brinda Sarathy, Vivien Hamilton and Janet Farrell Brodie |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (328 pages) |
Disciplina | 363.73 |
Collana | Intersections : histories of environment, science, and technology in the anthropocene |
Soggetto topico |
Pollution - History
Radiation - History Factory and trade waste - History |
ISBN | 0-8229-8623-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : toxicity, uncertainty, and expertise / Vivien Hamilton and Brinda Sarathy -- part one. Radiation. X-ray protection in American hospitals / Vivien Hamilton -- Contested knowledge : the Trinity test radiation studies / Janet Farrell Brodie -- Crossroads in San Francisco : the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory and Its afterlives / Lindsey Dillon -- Born opaque : investigating the nuclear accident at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory / William Palmer -- part two. Industrial toxins. Making way for industrial waste : water pollution control in Southern California, 1947-1955 / Brinda Sarathy -- Processing the past into your future : uncovering the hidden consequences of industrial development in the West Texas petrochemical industry / Sarah Stanford-McIntyre -- Vast, incredible damage : herbicides and the U.S. Forest Service / James G. Lewis and Char Miller -- Neighborhood oil drilling and environmental justice in Los Angeles / Bhavna Shamasunder -- part three : Community contestation, expanding expertise. Atomic bomb survivors, medical experts, and the endlessness of radiation illness / Naoko Wake -- On sovereignty, deficits, and dump fires : risk governance in an Arctic "dumpcano" / Alexander Zahara -- Epilogue containment : discussing nuclear waste with Peter Galison / interview by Vivien Hamilton and Brinda Sarathy. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828439003321 |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2018] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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