Synthetic planet : chemical politics and the hazards of modern life

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Chemical Matters Part I: Environments 1 Troubled Natures: Toxic Pollutants and Japanese Identity in Two Tokyo Communities 2 Indoor Air Pollution: Environmental Inequality Inside 3 Chemical Weapons “Dispersal”?: The Mundane Politics of Air Monitoring Part II: Bodies 4 Chemical Politics and the Hazards of Modern Warfare: Agent Orange 5 From Metallic to Sickly: Chemical Waste, Environmental Discourse, and the National Body in Post-Socialist Hungary 6 When a Child Has Cancer: Protecting Children from a Toxic World Part III: Communities 7 Permitting Poison: Public Participation, the Criteria for Action, and Environmental Justice in the Case of Dioxin 8 Chemicals, Cancer, and Prevention: The Synergy of Synthetic Social Movements 9 Change of State?: The Greening of Chemistry Part IV: Nations 10 Sexual Synthetics: Women, Science, and Microbicides 11 Chemicals and Casualties: The Search for Causes of Gulf War Illnesses 12 The Chemistry of Sovietization: Industrial Solvents and Nationalist Reactions in 1960s Lithuania 13 Conclusion: Environmental Security in an Uncertain World Notes References List of Contributors Index