Casper Synthetic Planet

Chemical Politics and the Hazards of Modern Life
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-317-79480-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

This 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. Turning our attention to the impact these chemicals have on our ecosystems, human health, social organization and political processes, the contributors break new ground by focusing on the production and distribution of these potentially hazardous agents themselves rather than just detailing their effects.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Casper, Monica J.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technologie: Soziale & Ethische Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction: Chemical Matters
Monica J. Casper
Part I: Environments
1. Troubled Natures: Toxic Pollutants and Japanese Identity in Two Tokyo Communities
Peter Wynn Kirby
2. Indoor Air Pollution: Environmental Inequality Inside
Allison Shore
3. Chemical Weapons "Dispersal"?: The Mundane Politics of Air Monitoring
Monica J. Casper

Part II: Bodies
4. Chemical Politics and the Hazards of Modern Warfare: Agent Orange
Diane Niblack Fox
5. From Metallic to Sickly: Chemical Waste, Environmental Discourse, and the National Body in Post-Socialist Hungary
Zsuzsa Gille
6. When a Child Has Cancer: Protecting Children From a Toxic World
Virginia Adams O'Connell

Part III: Communities
7. Permitting Poison: Public Participation, the Criteria for Action, and Environmental Justice in the Case of Dioxin
Karen Hoffman
8. Chemicals, Cancer, and Prevention: The Synergy of Synthetic Social Movements
Maren Klawiter
9. Change of State?: The Greening of Chemistry
E. J. Woodhouse

Part IV: Nations
10. Sexual Synthetics: Women, Science, and Microbicides
Susan E. Bell
11. Chemicals and Casualties: The Search for Causes of Gulf War Illnesses
Phil Brown, Steve Zavestoski, Meadow Linder, Sabrina McCormick, and Brian Mayer
12. The Chemistry of Sovietization: Industrial Solvents and Nationalist Reactions in 1960s Lithuania
Diana Mincyte
13. Conclusion: Environmental Security in an Uncertain World
Monica J. Casper and Barbara A. Barnes

notes

references

List of Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Monica J. Casper is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of The Making of the Unborn Patient, which won the C. Wright Mills Award in 1998.