Lead and Lead Poisoning in Antiquity
Author : Jerome O. Nriagu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 37,64 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Medical
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Author : Jerome O. Nriagu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 37,64 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Medical
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Author : Sarah E. Royce
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 28,81 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Lead
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Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 41,34 MB
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0128153407
Toxicology in Antiquity provides an authoritative and fascinating exploration into the use of toxins and poisons in antiquity. It brings together the two previously published shorter volumes on the topic, as well as adding considerable new information. Part of the History of Toxicology and Environmental Health series, it covers key accomplishments, scientists, and events in the broad field of toxicology, including environmental health and chemical safety. This first volume sets the tone for the series and starts at the very beginning, historically speaking, with a look at toxicology in ancient times. The book explains that before scientific research methods were developed, toxicology thrived as a very practical discipline. People living in ancient civilizations readily learned to distinguish safe substances from hazardous ones, how to avoid these hazardous substances, and how to use them to inflict harm on enemies. It also describes scholars who compiled compendia of toxic agents. New chapters in this edition focus chiefly on evidence for the use of toxic agents derived from religious texts. - Provides the historical background for understanding modern toxicology - Illustrates the ways previous civilizations learned to distinguish safe from hazardous substances, how to avoid the hazardous substances and how to use them against enemies - Explores the way famous historical figures used toxins - New chapters focus on evidence of the use of toxins derived from religious texts
Author : Philip Wexler
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 38,40 MB
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0128016345
This volume, Toxicology in Antiquity II, continues to tell the story of the roots of toxicology in ancient times. Readers learn that before scientific research methods were developed, toxicology thrived as a very practical discipline. Toxicologists are particularly proud of the rich and storied history of their field and there are few resources available that cover the discipline from a historical perspective. People living in ancient civilizations readily learned to distinguish safe from hazardous substances, how to avoid these hazardous substances and how to use them to inflict harm on enemies. Volume II explores the use of poison as weapons in war and assassinations, early instances of air pollution, the use of hallucinogens and entheogens, and the role of the snake in ancient toxicology. - Provides the historical background for understanding modern toxicology - Illustrates the ways ancient civilizations learned to distinguish safe from hazardous substances, how to avoid the hazardous substances and how to use them against enemies - Details scholars who compiled compendia of toxic agents
Author : Michael Grant
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 28,53 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Emperors
ISBN : 9780760741368
"Discover the fascinating history of the Roman emperors who were afflicted with physical and psychological ailments -- and the likely impact that these illnesses had upon their reigns. Included: Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Domitian, Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, Commodus, Caracalla, Diocletian, Constantine."--Amazon.com.
Author : Lukas Thommen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107002168
Lively and accessible account of the relationship between man and nature in Graeco-Roman antiquity. Describes the ways in which the Greeks and Romans intervened in the environment and thus traces the history of tension between the exploitation of resources and the protection of nature.
Author : Christian Warren
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 31,26 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801868207
Winner of the Arthur Viseltear Award for Outstanding Book in the History of Public Health from the American Public Health AssociationSelected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title During the twentieth century, lead poisoning killed thousands of workers and children in the United States. Thousands who survived lead poisoning were left physically crippled or were robbed of mental faculties and years of life. In Brush with Death, social historian Christian Warren offers the first comprehensive history of lead poisoning in the United States. Focusing on lead paint and leaded gasoline, Warren distinguishes three primary modes of exposure—occupational, pediatric, and environmental. This threefold perspective permits a nuanced exploration of the regulatory mechanisms, medical technologies, and epidemiological tools that arose in response to lead poisoning. Today, many children undergo aggressive "deleading" treatments when their blood-lead levels are well below the average blood-lead levels found in urban children in the 1950s. Warren links the repeated redefinition of lead poisoning to changing attitudes toward health, safety, and risk. The same changes that transformed the social construction of lead poisoning also transformed medicine and health care, giving rise to modern environmentalism and fundamentally altered jurisprudence.
Author : H. A. Waldron
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Medical
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Author : Sofie Remijsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 40,83 MB
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1107050782
A comprehensive study of how and why athletic contests, a characteristic feature of ancient Greek culture, disappeared in late antiquity.
Author : Morton Satin
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 21,44 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Cooking
ISBN :
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