Lead, a legal poison : uses and regulations of the toxic substance in the ^19th century

Judith Rainhorn

Judith Rainhorn is a historian, professor at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and researcher at the Maison française d'Oxford. Her work focuses on the social history of urban populations, work and health in the ^19th and 20th^centuries . Her latest work, Blanc de plomb. Histoire d'un poison légal (Presses de Sciences Po, 2019) has been awarded three academic prizes.