Christopher Hamlin

What Becomes of Pollution? (eBook, ePUB)

Adversary Science and the Controversy on the Self-Purification of Rivers in Britain, 1850-1900

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1987, this volume examines the ideals and realities of river use in 19th Century Britain and the failure of legal and technological remedies for river pollution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000692068
• Artikelnr.: 58060941

Autorenporträt

Hamlin\, Christopher

Inhaltsangabe

1. Duties, Disputes and Deceptions: Rivers and British Society, 1850-1900
2. Routes to Reputation: Science in an Adversary Context 3. The Antithesis
of Life: Decomposition in Victorian Science and Medicine 4. Biological
Purification, 1850-1880 5. From Sensibility to Nihilism: Water Quality and
Self-Purification, 1850-1860 6. The Triumph of Nihilism, 1860-68 7. The
Radicalization of a Water Scientist: Edward Frankland and the London Water
Controversy, 1866-69 8. Politics and Credibility: Frankland and Self
Purification, 1868-1881 9. Biology Acquires a Constituency I: Organisms and
the Politics of Water Supply 10. Biology Acquires a Constituency II:
Organisms and the Politics of Sewage Treatment Conclusion: Society, Science
and Self-Purification Appendix A: Samples of Water Analyses, 1828-72
Appendix B: Biographical Digest of Some Important but not well-known
figures in the history of river self-purification