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Toxic Histories - Poison and Pollution in Modern India (Hardcover)
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Toxic Histories - Poison and Pollution in Modern India (Hardcover)
Series: Science in History
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Toxic Histories combines social, scientific, medical and
environmental history to demonstrate the critical importance of
poison and pollution to colonial governance, scientific authority
and public anxiety in India between the 1830s and 1950s. Against
the background of India's 'poison culture' and periodic 'poison
panics', David Arnold considers why many familiar substances came
to be regarded under colonialism as dangerous poisons. As well as
the criminal uses of poison, Toxic Histories shows how European and
Indian scientists were instrumental in creating a distinctive
system of forensic toxicology and medical jurisprudence designed
for Indian needs and conditions, and how local, as well as
universal, poison knowledge could serve constructive scientific and
medical purposes. Arnold reflects on how the 'fear of a poisoned
world' spilt over into concerns about contamination and pollution,
giving ideas of toxicity a wider social and political significance
that has continued into India's postcolonial era.
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