ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|23 pages
Environments
part 2|19 pages
Bodies
chapter 5|20 pages
From Metallic to Sickly
Chemical Waste, Environmental Discourse, and the National Body in Post-Socialist Hungary
part 3|23 pages
Communities
chapter 7|21 pages
Permitting Poison
Public Participation, the Criteria for Action, and Environmental Justice in the Case of Dioxin
part 4|17 pages
Nations
chapter 12|17 pages
The Chemistry of Sovietization
Industrial Solvents and Nationalist Reactions in 1960s Lithuania