Description: Toxic Histories : Poison and Pollution in Modern India, Hardcover by Arnold, David, ISBN 1107126975, ISBN-13 9781107126978, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Toxic Histories combines social, scientific, medical and environmental history to demonstrate the critical importance of poison and pollution to colonial governance, scientific authority and public anxiety in India between the 1830s and 1950s. Against the background of India's 'poison culture' and periodic 'poison panics', David Arnold considers why many familiar substances came to be regarded under colonialism as dangerous poisons. As well as the criminal uses of poison, Toxic Histories shows how European and Indian scientists were instrumental in creating a distinctive system of forensic toxicology and medical jurisprudence designed for Indian needs and conditions, and how local as well as universal poison knowledge could serve constructive scientificand medical purposes. Arnold reflects on how the 'fear of a poisoned world' spilt over into concerns about contamination and pollution, giving ideas of toxicity a wider social and political significance that has continued into India's postcolonial era"--
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Book Title: Toxic Histories : Poison and Pollution in Modern India
Number of Pages: 250 Pages
Publication Name: Toxic Histories : Poison and Pollution in Modern India
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Public Health, Toxicology, History
Publication Year: 2016
Item Height: 0.7 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.3 Oz
Author: David Arnold
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Technology & Engineering, Science, Medical
Item Width: 6.2 in
Series: Science in History Ser.
Format: Hardcover
