Description: Before Silent Spring : Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America, Paperback by Whorton, James, ISBN 0691618291, ISBN-13 9780691618296, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
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. Whortons history of this public health menace emphasizes that insecticides have been contaminating produce since the introduction of chemical pesticides in the 1860s.
Th examines the period before the publication of Rachel Carsons famous Silent Spring, tracing the origins of the residue problem and exploring the complicated network of interest groups that formed around the issue. The author shows how economic necessities, technological limitations, and pressures on regulatory agencies have brought us to "our present dilemma of seemingly having to poison our food in order to protect it."
In Part I, the agricultural and medical literature of the past century is used to analyze the emergence by 1920 of a public health danger of serious proportions. Part II draws heavily on the unpublished records of the Food and Drug Administration to document how the ineffective handling of this danger established precedents for present pesticide abuses.
Originally published in 1975.
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Book Title: Before Silent Spring : Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT Am
Number of Pages: 302 Pages
Publication Name: Before Silent Spring : Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-Ddt America
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Toxicology, Agriculture / General
Publication Year: 2015
Item Weight: 15 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Technology & Engineering, Science, Medical
Author: James C. Whorton
Item Length: 9.1 in
Item Width: 7 in
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
Format: Trade Paperback
