1st Edition

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

By Christopher Hamlin Copyright 1987
640 Pages
by Routledge

640 Pages
by Routledge

640 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1987, this volume examines the ideals and realities of river use in 19 th Century Britain and the failure of legal and technological remedies for river pollution. It deals with the involvement of scientists, particularly chemists, in pollution inquiries and considers the effects on the normal workings of the scientific community of scientists’ participation in the... Read more

 

Biography

Christopher Hamlin