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Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America

Hardback

Main Details

Title Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America
Authors and Contributors      By (author) James C. Whorton
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:306
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 152
Category/GenrePollution and threats to the environment
ISBN/Barcode 9780691645308
ClassificationsDewey:363.1792
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details
Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 19 April 2016
Publication Country United States

Description

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 introduction of chemical pesticides in the 1860s. The book