Title Toxic archipelago : a history of industrial disease in Japan / Brett L. Walker ; foreword by Willima Cronon

Published Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, c2010

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 284 p.) Series Weyerhaeuser environmental books Weyerhaeuser environmental book. Contents Introduction: Knowing Nature -- 1. The Agency of Insects -- 2. The Agency of Chemicals -- 3. Copper Mining and Ecological Collapse -- 4. Engineering Pain in the Jinzu River Basin -- 6. Hell at the Hojo Colliery Summary "Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relationships - and are imperiled by them as well. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago." "During the nineteenth century, Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis, a new breed of human transformed by an engineered, industrialized, and poisonous environment. Toxins moved freely from mines, factory sites, and rice paddies into human bodies." "Toxic Archipelago explores how toxic pollution works its way into porous human bodies and brings unimaginable pain to some of them. Brett Walker examines startling case studies of industrial toxins: deaths from insecticide contaminations; poisonings from copper, zinc, and lead mining; congenital deformities from methylmercury factory effluents; and lung diseases from sulfur dioxide and asbestos." "This powerful, probing book demonstrates how the Japanese archipelago has become industrialized over the last two hundred years - and how people and the environment have suffered as a consequence."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-269) and index Notes English Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed American Society for Environmental History George Perkins Marsh Prize, 2011 Subject Occupational diseases -- Japan -- History Human ecology -- Japan -- History Occupational Diseases -- history Ecological and Environmental Phenomena HEALTH & FITNESS -- Work-Related Health. MEDICAL -- Occupational & Industrial Medicine. HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan. Ecology Human ecology Occupational diseases Berufskrankheit Umweltfaktor SUBJECT Japan -- Environmental conditions Japan Subject Japan Japan Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021694580 ISBN 9780295803012 0295803010

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