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Inevitably Toxic : Historical Perspectives on Contamination, Exposure, and Expertise.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Intersections SeriesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (328 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822986232
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Inevitably ToxicDDC classification:
  • 615.902
LOC classification:
  • RA1226
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Radiation -- 1. X-ray Protection in American Hospitals -- 2. Contested Knowledge -- 3. Crossroads in San Francisco -- 4. Born Opaque -- Part Two: Industrial Toxins -- 5. Making Way for Industrial Waste -- 6. Processing the Past into Your Future -- 7. Vast, Incredible Damage -- 8. Neighborhood Oil Drilling and Environmental Justice in Los Angeles -- Part Three: Community, Contestation, Expanding Expertise -- 9. Atomic Bomb Survivors, Medical Experts, and the Endlessness of Radiation Illness -- 10. On Sovereignty, Deficits, and Dump Fires -- Epilogue -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: The essays in this collection ask us to confront the toxic landscapes that pervade modern life using the example of exposure of people in four countries to nuclear radiation, industrial waste, pesticides and future biological warfare.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Radiation -- 1. X-ray Protection in American Hospitals -- 2. Contested Knowledge -- 3. Crossroads in San Francisco -- 4. Born Opaque -- Part Two: Industrial Toxins -- 5. Making Way for Industrial Waste -- 6. Processing the Past into Your Future -- 7. Vast, Incredible Damage -- 8. Neighborhood Oil Drilling and Environmental Justice in Los Angeles -- Part Three: Community, Contestation, Expanding Expertise -- 9. Atomic Bomb Survivors, Medical Experts, and the Endlessness of Radiation Illness -- 10. On Sovereignty, Deficits, and Dump Fires -- Epilogue -- Contributors -- Index.

The essays in this collection ask us to confront the toxic landscapes that pervade modern life using the example of exposure of people in four countries to nuclear radiation, industrial waste, pesticides and future biological warfare.

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