Synthetic Planet: Chemical Politics and the Hazards of Modern Life / Edition 1

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Overview

From chemistry sets to chemical weapons, from plastics to pesticides, and from air pollution to Agent Orange, industrial chemicals have transformed the way we live. This timely collection of original essays traces the migration of synthetic chemicals from the laboratory to the factory, and into our environment, bodies, and communities.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780415933551
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publication date: 6/17/2003
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 288
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.74 (d)

Meet the Author

Monica J. Casper is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of The Making of the Unborn Patient, which won the C. Wright Mills Award in 1998.

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Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Chemical Matters
1 Troubled Natures: Toxic Pollutants and Japanese Identity in Two Tokyo Communities 3
2 Indoor Air Pollution: Environmental Inequality Inside 25
3 Chemical Weapons "Dispersal"?: The Mundane Politics of Air Monitoring 51
4 Chemical Politics and the Hazards of Modern Warfare: Agent Orange 73
5 From Metallic to Sickly: Chemical Waste, Environmental Discourse, and the National Body in Post-Socialist Hungary 91
6 When a Child Has Cancer: Protecting Children from a Toxic World 111
7 Permitting Poison: Public Participation, the Criteria for Action, and Environmental Justice in the Case of Dioxin 133
8 Chemicals, Cancer, and Prevention: The Synergy of Synthetic Social Movements 155
9 Change of State?: The Greening of Chemistry 177
10 Sexual Synthetics: Women, Science, and Microbicides 197
11 Chemicals and Casualties: The Search for Causes of Gulf War Illnesses 213
12 The Chemistry of Sovietization: Industrial Solvents and Nationalist Reactions in 1960s Lithuania 237
13 Conclusion: Environmental Security in an Uncertain World 255
Notes 263
References 285
List of Contributors 307
Index 311
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