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245 00 $aSynthetic planet :$bchemical politics and the hazards of modern life /$cedited by Monica J. Casper.
260 $aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2003.
300 $axxxi, 320 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 285-305) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Chemical matters / Monica J. Casper -- pt. 1. Environment. Troubled natures: toxic pollutants and Japanese identity in two Tokyo communities / Peter Wynn Kirby -- Indoor air pollution: environmental inequality inside / Allison Shore -- Chemical weapons "dispersal"?: the mundane politics of air monitoring / Monica J. Casper -- pt. 2. Bodies. Chemical politics and the hazards of modern warfare: Agent Orange / Diane Niblack Fox -- From metallic to sickly: chemical waste, environmental discourse, and the national body in post-socialist Hungary / Zsuzsa Gille -- When a child has cancer: protecting children from a toxic world / Virginia Adams O'Connell -- pt. 3. Communities. Permitting poison: public participation, the criteria for action, and environmental justice in the case of Dioxin / Karen Hoffman -- Chemicals, cancer, and prevention: the synergy of synthetic social movements / Maren Klawiter -- Change of state?: the greening of chemistry / E.J. Woodhouse -- pt. 4. Nations. Sexual synthetics: women, science, and microbicides / Susan E. Bell -- Chemicals and casualties: the search for causes of Gulf War illnesses / Phil Brown [and others] -- The chemistry of Sovietization: industrial solvents and nationalist reactions in 1960s Lithuania / Diana Mincyte -- Conclusion: Environmental security in an uncertain world / Monica J. Casper and Barbara A. Barnes.
520 $aThis timely collection of original essays traces the migration of synthetic chemicals from the laboratory to the factory and then into the environment, bodies and communities.
650 0 $aPollution$xEnvironmental aspects.
700 1 $aCasper, Monica J.,$d1966-
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