Synthetic planet : chemical politics and the hazards of modern life

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