Hazardous Chemicals

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements



Introduction: Hazardous Chemicals, 1800-2000: A Conceptual and Regulatory Overview

Ernst Homburg and Elisabeth Vaupel



PART I: FROM ACUTE TO CHRONIC POISONING: REGULATING OLD POISONS IN THE INDUSTRIAL AGE



Chapter 1. Schweinfurt Green and the Sanitary Police: The Fight Against Copper Arsenite Pigments

Joost Mertens?



Chapter 2. The Banning of White Lead: French and International Regulations

Laurence Lestel



Chapter 3. Old Situations, New Complications: Lead and Lead Poisoning in a Changing World

Christian Warren



PART II: DISCOVERING NEW HEALTH IMPACTS: CARCIOGENESIS, MUTAGENESIS AND MORE IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY AND NON-KNOWLEDGE



Chapter 4. Discovering Chemical Carcinogenesis: The Case of the Aromatic Amines

Heiko Stoff and Anthony S. Travis



Chapter 5. Cyclamates: A Tale of Uncertain Knowledge (1930s-1980s)

Alexander von Schwerin



Chapter 6. Cadmium Poisoning in Japan: The Itai-itai Disease and Beyond

Masanori Kaji?



Chapter 7. Dioxins: The "Total Poison"

Stefan Boeschen



PART III: NEW PRODUCTS, NEW EFFECTS. THE DISCOVERY OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE LONG SHADOW OF THE 1960S



Chapter 8. Organophosphates

Frederick R. Davis



Chapter 9. A Tale of Two Nations: DDT in the USA and the UK

Peter J. T. Morris



Chapter 10. War and Peace: The Phenoxy Herbicides

Amy M. Hay



Chapter 11. Raising a Stink: The Short Happy Life of MTBE

John K. Smith



Conclusions

Ernst Homburg and Elisabeth Vaupel



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Chemical Industry; Industrial Chemistry; Chemical Hazards; Poisonous Substances; Harmful Chemicals