Peter Thompson is Assistant Professor of History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science at Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University.

• List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The structures of violence: Fritz Haber and the institutionalization of gas warfare; 2. The man in the rubber mask: World War I and the development of the modern gas mask; 3. The first 'chemical subjects': soldiers encounters with the gas mask in World War I; 4. The limits of sympathy: the medical treatment of poison gas during and after World War I; 5. Atmos(fears): the poison gas debates in the Weimar Republic; 6. Technologies of fate: cultural and intellectual prophesies of the future gas war; 7. Synthesizing the 'Nazi chemical subject': gas masks, personal armoring, and vestiary discipline in the Third Reich; 8. Prophets of poison: industrialized murder in the gas chambers of the Holocaust; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Peter Thompson is Assistant Professor of History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science at Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University.

• List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The structures of violence: Fritz Haber and the institutionalization of gas warfare; 2. The man in the rubber mask: World War I and the development of the modern gas mask; 3. The first 'chemical subjects': soldiers encounters with the gas mask in World War I; 4. The limits of sympathy: the medical treatment of poison gas during and after World War I; 5. Atmos(fears): the poison gas debates in the Weimar Republic; 6. Technologies of fate: cultural and intellectual prophesies of the future gas war; 7. Synthesizing the 'Nazi chemical subject': gas masks, personal armoring, and vestiary discipline in the Third Reich; 8. Prophets of poison: industrialized murder in the gas chambers of the Holocaust; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Peter Thompson is Assistant Professor of History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science at Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University.

• List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The structures of violence: Fritz Haber and the institutionalization of gas warfare; 2. The man in the rubber mask: World War I and the development of the modern gas mask; 3. The first 'chemical subjects': soldiers encounters with the gas mask in World War I; 4. The limits of sympathy: the medical treatment of poison gas during and after World War I; 5. Atmos(fears): the poison gas debates in the Weimar Republic; 6. Technologies of fate: cultural and intellectual prophesies of the future gas war; 7. Synthesizing the 'Nazi chemical subject': gas masks, personal armoring, and vestiary discipline in the Third Reich; 8. Prophets of poison: industrialized murder in the gas chambers of the Holocaust; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.