| Title |
Toxicants, health and regulation since 1945 / edited by Soraya Boudia and Nathalie Jas. |
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| Imprint |
London ; Brookfield, Vt. : Pickering & Chatto, 2013. |
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| Description |
xiii, 193 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine ; no. 9.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Soraya Boudia and Nathalie Jas -- The cold war over the worker's body : cross-national clashes over maximum allowable concentrations in the post-World War II era / Christopher Sellers -- Adapting to 'reality' : the emergence of an international expertise on food additives and contaminants in the 1950s and early 1960s / Nathalie Jas -- From threshold to risk : exposure to low doses of radiation and its effects on toxicants regulation / Saraya Boudia -- 'License to expose'? : occupational exposure limits, scientific expertise and state in contemporary France / Emmanuel Henry -- Chemical infrastructures of the St Clair River / Michelle Murphy -- Managing an everlastingly polluted world : food policies and community health actions in the French West Indies / Didier Torny -- Chernobyl empowerment? : exporting 'participatory governance' to contaminated territories / Sezin Topçu. |
| Subject(s) |
Hazardous substances -- Health aspects.
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Hazardous substances -- Law and legislation.
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Hazardous substances -- History -- 20th century.
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| Alternate Author |
Boudia, Soraya.
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Jas, Nathalie.
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