An element of controversy
Subtitle: the life of chlorine in science, medicine, technology and war
By: edited by Hasok Chang and Catherine Jackson from research by undergraduate students at University College London
Series: BSHS monographs -- no. 13; BSHS monographs -- no. 13.
Publisher: British Society for the History of Science
Published: 2007
Place of publication: [London?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9780906450017
Subjects: Chlorine; History; 35.46 halogens and their compounds; 89.87 weapons, arms and armor; 43.56 hazardous substances; Chlor; Chlorindustrie; Krieg; Medizin; Technik; Wissenschaft; Chlorine compounds; Klor; Historia
Other titles: Life of chlorine in science, medicine, technology and war
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Current Copyright Fee: GBP20.00 0.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Hasok Chang and Catherine Jackson -- Part A.; title: Chlorine and the theory of matter --; title: The discovery of chlorine : a window on the chemical revolution  -- Ruth Ashbee; title: The elementary nature of chlorine  -- Tamsin Gray, Rosemary Coates and Marten Akesson; title: Chlorine and Prout's hypothesis  -- Jonathan Nendick, Dominic Scrancher and Olivier Usher; title: Looking into the core of the Sun  -- Christian Guy [and others] -- Part B.; title: Life, death and destruction by chlorine --; title: Obstacles in the establishment of chlorine bleaching  -- Manchi Chung [and others]; title: Chlorine disinfection and theories of disease  -- Anna Lewcock, Fiona Scott-Kerr and Elinor Mathieson; title: Chlorine as the first major chemical weapon  -- Frederick Cowell [and others]; title: Ethics, public relations, and the origins of the Geneva Protocol  -- Abbi Hobbs [and others]; title: The rise and fall of "chlorine chambers" against cold and flu  -- David Nader and Spasoje Marcinko; title: War and the scientific community  -- Sam Raphael, George Kalpadakis and Daisy O'Reilly-Weinstock; title: The noisy reception of Silent Spring  -- Kimm Groshong -- Epilogue :; title: Turning an undergraduate class into a professional research community -- Hasok Chang.