Conclusion

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures and Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Abbreviations xii
6. Introduction. A Conceptual and Regulatory Overview, 1800–2000 1
7. Part I. From Acute to Chronic Poisoning: Regulating Old Poisons in the Industrial Age
8. 1. Schweinfurt Green and the Sanitary Police: The Fight against Copper Arsenite Pigments 61
9. 2. The Banning of White Lead: French and International Regulations 87
10. 3. Old Situations, New Complications: Lead and Lead Poisoning in a Changing World 107
11. Part II. Discovering New Health Impacts: Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, and More in Times of Uncertainty and Non-knowledge
12. 4. Discovering Chemical Carcinogenesis: The Case of Aromatic Amines 135
13. 5. Cyclamates: A Tale of Uncertain Knowledge (1930s–1980s) 179
14. 6. Cadmium Poisoning in Japan: Itai-itai Disease and Beyond 211
15. 7. Dioxins: The “Total Poison” 235
16. Part III. New Products, New Effects: The Discovery of the Environment and the Long Shadow of the 1960s
17. 8. Organophosphates 265
18. 9. A Tale of Two Nations: DDT in the United States and the United Kingdom 294
19. 10. War and Peace: The Phenoxy Herbicides 328
20. 11. Raising a Stink: The Short, Happy Life of MTBE 354
21. Conclusion 376
22. Index 393