Before Silent Spring : : Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America / / James C. Whorton.
Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced the same hazard. James C. Whorton's history of this public health menace emphasizes that insecticides have been contaminating produce since the intro...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1975 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (306 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Part One. Recognition
- 1. The Insect Emergency
- 2. The Lingering Dram
- 3. "Spray, O Spray"
- Part Two. Regulation
- 4. Regulatory Prelude
- 5. Regulatory Perplexities
- 6. Regulatory Publicity
- 7. "No Longer a Hazard"
- Epilogue
- Bibliographic Notes
- Index
- Backmatter