LIVING VS NON-LIVING. “My goal here is to reinsert the question of intoxication into the chemical investigations of the day as it served both to motivate the study of plant substances and acted as a model for thinking about how chemicals could affect the human body. As such, the question sat at the centre of important nineteenth-century debates on the development of synthetic chemicals and how to talk about the differences between living and non-living substances.”
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00026980.2020.1867786
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022