Toxic Histories: Poison and Pollution in Modern India

ISBN-13: 9781107126978 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 250 str.

David Arnold

Opis

An analysis of the challenge that India's poison culture posed for colonial rule and toxicology's creation of a public role for science.

Recenzje

'Arnold's explorations of poison, pollution, and toxicity are accessible, informative, and quite illuminating … The book does serve as a helpful road map to future scholarship on poison and environmental pollution not only in India but in the rest of our poisoned world.' Eric Strahorn, Environmental History

Spis treści

Introduction: poison traces; 1. The social life of poisons; 2. The imperial pharmakon; 3. Panics and scares; 4. Toxic evidence; 5. Intimate histories; 6. Embracing toxicity; 7. Polluted places, poisoned lives; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.