Toxicants, Health and Regulation since 1945

'timely and important ... makes a valuable contribution to a growing body of scholarship analysing risk management from a transnational perspective.' Ambix 'an important book that asks the hard questions about public health and political reform in the post-World War II era ... provides an excellent description and analysis of the perils we face and the policies that have contributed to such dangers.' Bulletin of the History of Medicine 'the book is a welcome contribution to the recent historical scholarship on transnational risk regulation...there is much to commend this book to scholars of occupational and environmental health regulation' Social History of Medicine 'well written and provides extensive documentation. Recommended.' CHOICE

• Acknowledgements, Soraya Boudia, Nathalie Jas; Chapter 1 The Cold War over the Worker’s Body: Cross-National Clashes over Maximum Allowable Concentrations in the Post-World War II Era, Christopher Sellers; Chapter 2 Adapting to ‘Reality’: The Emergence of an International Expertise on Food Additives and Contaminants in the 1950s and Early 1960s, Nathalie Jas; Chapter 3 From Threshold to Risk: Exposure to Low Doses of Radiation and its Effects on Toxicants Regulation, Soraya Boudia; Chapter 4 ‘License to Expose’? Occupational Exposure Limits, Scientific Expertise and State in Contemporary France, Emmanuel Henry; Chapter 5 Chemical Infrastructures of the St Clair River, Michelle Murphy; Chapter 6 Managing an Everlastingly Polluted World: Food Policies and Community Health Actions in the French West Indies, Didier Torny; Chapter 7 Chernobyl Empowerment? Exporting ‘Part icipatory Governance’ to Contaminated Territories, Sezin Topçu;