ヒ素の世紀:ヴィクトリア朝イギリスにおける毒の遍在<br>The Arsenic Century : How Victorian Britain Was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play

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ヒ素の世紀:ヴィクトリア朝イギリスにおける毒の遍在
The Arsenic Century : How Victorian Britain Was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 412 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780199574704
  • DDC分類 669.75094109034

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2010. The story of arsenic in Victorian Britain, looking both at its widespread presence in everything from candles to curtains, and also its more sinister use for murder and suicide.

Full Description


Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from accident. Kept in many homes for the purpose of poisoning rats, the white powder was easily mistaken for sugar or flour and often incorporated into the family dinner. It was also widely present in green dyes, used to tint everything from candles and candies to curtains, wallpaper, and clothing (it was arsenic in old lace that was the danger). Whether at home amidst arsenical curtains and wallpapers, at work manufacturing these products, or at play swirling about the papered, curtained ballroom in arsenical gowns and gloves, no one was beyond the poison's reach. Drawing on the medical, legal, and popular literature of the time, The Arsenic Century paints a vivid picture of its wide-ranging and insidious presence in Victorian daily life, weaving together the history of its emergence as a nearly inescapable household hazard with the sordid story of its frequent employment as a tool of murder and suicide.And ultimately, as the final chapter suggests, arsenic in Victorian Britain was very much the pilot episode for a series of environmental poisoning dramas that grew ever more common during the twentieth century and still has no end in sight.

Contents

1. 'Such an Instrument of Death and Agony' ; 2. 'A New Race of Poisoners' ; 3. A New Breed of Detectives ; 4. 'The Chief Terror of Poisoners' ; 5. A Penn'orth of Poison ; 6. 'Sugared Death' ; 7. 'The Hue of Death, the Tint of the Grave' ; 8. Walls of Death ; 9. Physician-assisted Poisoning ; 10. 'A Very Wholesome Poison' ; 11. Poison in the Factory and on the Farm ; 12. 'Dangers that Lie Wait in the Pint-Pot' ; Notes ; Index