Toxic Airs - Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective

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.

Info autore

James Rodger Fleming is a professor of science, technology, and society at Colby College and a visiting lecturer and officer at Columbia University. His most recent book is Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control, winner of the Sally Hacker Book Prize from the Society for the History of Technology and the Lewis J. Battan Author's Award from the American Meteorological Society.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: James Rodger Fleming (Editore), Ann Johnson (Editore)
• Editore: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 23.03.2014
• EAN: 9780822962908
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6290-8
• Pagine: 304
• Dimensioni: 151 mm x 228 mm x 25 mm
• Peso: 464 g
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Ecologia