Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Corrupt Air, Poisonous Places, and the Toxic Breath of Witches in Late Medieval Medicine and Theology - Brenda Gardenour Walter
2. Surgeon Reginald Orton and the Pathology of Deadly Air: The Contest for Context in Environmental Health - Christopher Hamlin
3. Better to Cry Than Die? : The Paradoxes of Tear Gas in the Vietnam Era - Roger Eardley-Pryor
4. Toxic Soldiers: Chemicals and the Bodies of Gulf War Syndrome Sufferers - Susie Kilshaw
5. Deciphering the Chemistry of Los Angeles Smog, 1945–1995 - Peter Brimblecombe
6. Chasing Molecules: Chemistry and Technology for Automotive Emissions Control - Richard Chase Dunn and Ann Johnson
7. CHESS Lessons: Controversy and Compromise in the Making of the EPA - Jongmin Lee
8. A Heightened Controversy: Nuclear Weapons Testing, Radioactive Tracers, and the Dynamic Stratosphere - E. Jerry Jessee
9. Burning Rain: The Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution Project - Rachel Rothschild
10. The Transmutation of Ozone in the Early 1970s - Matthias Dörries
11. Who Owns the Air? : Contemporary Art Addresses the Climate Crisis - Andrea Polli
12. Carbon “Die”-Oxide: The Personal and the Planetary - James Rodger Fleming
Contributors
Index