Rachel Maines

Asbestos and Fire: Technological Tradeoffs and the Body at Risk

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This thought-provoking and controversial book challenges the recent vilification of asbestos by providing a historical perspective on Americans' changing perceptions about risk. Rachel Maines suggests that the very success of asbestos and other fire-prevention technologies in containing deadly blazes has led to a sort of historical amnesia about the very risks they were supposed to reduce.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9780813564722
• ISBN-10: 0813564727
• Artikelnr.: 38055138

Autorenporträt

Maines, Rachel

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Tables
Preface
1 The Asbestos Technology Decision Environment
2 Asbestos before 1880: From Natural Wonder to Industrial Material
3 The Rise of the Asbestos Curtain
4 Mass Destruction by Fire: Asbestos in World War II
5 Schools, Homes, and Workplaces: Fire Prevention in the Postwar Built
Environment
6 The Asbestos Tort Conflagration
Appendix A: Some Asbestos End-Uses in the United States, 1850-1990
Appendix B: Selected List of Organizations Specifying Asbestos in Codes,
Standards or Recommendations, 1880-1980
Notes
Index