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Residues: Thinking Through Chemical Environments (Nature, Society, and Culture)
by Nathalie Jas • Soraya Boudia • Scott Frickel • Carsten Reinhardt • Angela N. Creager • Emmanuel Henry • Jody A. RobertsResidues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation. Environmental protection regimes tend to be highly segmented according to place, media, substance, and effect; academic scholarship often reflects this... थप
Language: ENGप्रतिलिपि अधिकार 2022 -
Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine
After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955. Even as the atomic bomb became the focus of Cold War anxiety, radioisotopes represented the governmentOCOs... थप
Language: ENGप्रतिलिपि अधिकार 2013 -
Risk on the Table: Food Production, Health, and the Environment (Environment in History: International Perspectives #21)
Over the last century, the industrialization of agriculture and processing technologies have made food abundant and relatively inexpensive for much of the world’s population. Simultaneously, pesticides, nitrates, and other technological innovations intended to improve the food supply’s productivity ... थप
Language: ENGप्रतिलिपि अधिकार 2021 -
Science Without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives
Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws. How then do they acquire a reliable body of knowledge about biological organisms and human disease? One way is by repeatedly returning t... थप
Language: ENGप्रतिलिपि अधिकार 2007