Global risks are both recent and old phenomena. They are recent because the success of
the formulation 'global risks' across audiences is fairly new (two to three decades). They …

This chapter examines how the spread of new classes of synthetic chemicals, and
antimicrobial compounds in particular, over the last century have transformed indoor and …

Why was bleaching—despite early concerns about this new food technology—left
unregulated for over half a century? This article focuses on the processes developed to …

The rapid development and consequent release of toxic compounds have raised significant
concerns due to their potential of causing environmental hazards. The natural and human …

This chapter considers how a distinctive hyperconnected twentieth and twenty-first century
disease ecology has begun to challenge prior theories of health, immunity and ecology …

The Anthropocene has seen tremendous transformations in human and nonhuman
environments across the globe. The five essays in this Forum, plus a comment, explore the …

The chapter analyses how the normative legitimacy of health and safety was enacted in
Britain since 1960, particularly in relation to why health and safety was carried out and the …

This chapter focuses on the functional legitimacy of health and safety—how it derives
acceptance from the ways in which it operates in practice, and the outcomes that it produces …