Pioneering british women chemists: their lives and contributions, Rayner-canham, Marelene (memorial Univ Of Newfoundland, Canada) Rayner-canham, Geoffrey (memorial Univ Of Newfoundland, Canada)
Автор: Kuchenbuch, David (justus-liebig University Giessen, Germany) Название: Pioneering health in london, 1935-2000 ISBN: 113872291X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138722910 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Peckham Experiment, conducted between 1935 and 1950 in the London Pioneer Health Centre, was one of the most talked-about social experiments of the 20th century. Families from the South London neighbourhood of Peckham were invited to use the facilities of a radiantly modern building. They were encouraged to freely choose and organize their leisure activities, taking advantage of a swimming pool, a gymnasium, and a self-service cafeteria. In doing so, both their health status and interaction with other members of the nascent centre-community were closely observed by a team of physicians. The first research monograph on the history of the experiment building on archival sources, this book combines a micro-historical perspective with methods from the history of science. It shows how bio-medical holism and evolutionary theories typical of the interwar years informed research on social life in the centre. But it also reveals that the "guinea pigs", too, were trying to make sense of the research they were taking part in. The outcome was an ambiguous social laboratory that generated new insights into the power of social groups to self-organize, which were soon discussed all over the world – and continue to haunt British political debates today.
Автор: Brown Jeannette E. Название: African American Women Chemists in the Modern Era ISBN: 0190615176 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190615178 Издательство: Oxford Academ Цена: 5226.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A follow-up to Brown`s first book, Hiding in Plain Sight focuses on the lives of eighteen African-American women who are working now as chemists or chemical engineers and have benefited from the Civil Rights Act.
Автор: Marco Fontani; Mary Virginia Orna; Mariagrazia Cos Название: Chemistry and Chemists in Florence ISBN: 3319308548 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319308548 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 7182.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This brief offers a novel vision of the city of Florence, tracing the development of chemistry via the biographies of its most illustrious chemists.
Описание: For thousands of years, we've found ways to scorch, scour, and sterilize our surroundings to make them safer. Sometimes these methods are wonderfully effective. Often, however, they come with catastrophic consequences--consequences that aren't typically understood for generations. The Chemical Age tells the captivating story of the scientists who waged war on famine and disease with chemistry. With depth and verve, Frank A. von Hippel explores humanity's uneasy coexistence with pests, and how their existence, and the battles to exterminate them, have shaped our modern world. Beginning with the potato blight tragedy of the 1840s, which led scientists on an urgent mission to prevent famine using pesticides, von Hippel traces the history of pesticide use to the 1960s, when Rachel Carson's Silent Spring revealed that those same chemicals were insidiously damaging our health and driving species toward extinction. Telling the story of these pesticides in vivid detail, von Hippel showcases the thrills and complex consequences of scientific discovery. He describes the invention of substances that could protect crops, the emergence of our understanding of the way diseases spread, the creation of chemicals used to kill pests and people, and, finally, how scientists turned those wartime chemicals on the landscape at a massive scale, prompting the vital environmental movement that continues today. The Chemical Age is a dynamic, sweeping history that exposes how humankind's affinity for pesticides made the modern world possible--while also threatening its essential fabric.
Описание: This volume is the fourth and concluding part of a survey which brings to light the contributions of about 1000 nineteenth-century women whose published work appeared in journals listed in the London Royal Society`s Catalogue of Scientific Papers 1800-1900. Volume IV concerns women authors from Imperial Russia.
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