Toxic airs

By James Rodger Fleming, Ann Johnson

Subjects: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, Air, Science, Environmental sciences, SCIENCE / Environmental Science, History, Air, pollution, Pollution, Science, history

Description: "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"--