Toxicants, health and regulation since 1945
By: edited by Soraya Boudia and Nathalie Jas
Series: Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine -- no. 9; Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine -- no. 9.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9781315654645
Subjects: Hazardous substances; Health aspects; Law and legislation; History; Substances dangereuses; Aspect sanitaire
Notes: "First published 2013 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The Cold War over the worker's body : cross-national clashes over maximum allowable concentrations in the post-World War II era / Chrisopher Sellers; title: 2. Adapting to 'reality' : the emergence of an international expertise on food additives and contaminants in the 1950s and early 1960s / Nathalie Jas; title: 3. From threshold to risk : exposure to low doses of radiation and its effects on toxicants regulations / Soraya Boudia; title: 4. 'License to expose'? Occupational exposure limits, scientific expertise and state in contemporary France / Emmanuel Henry; title: 5. Chemical infrastructures of the St. Clair River / Michelle Murphy; title: 6. Managing an everlastingly polluted world : food policies and community health actions in the French West Indies / Didier Torny; title: 7. Chernobyl empowerment? Exporting 'participatory governance' to contaminated territories / Sezin Top©ʹu.