Before Silent Spring

Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America

By:

James C Whorton

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

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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

Release date Australia

March 8th, 2015

Author

James C Whorton

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

306

Series

Princeton Legacy Library

Dimensions

155x235x16

ISBN-13

9780691618296

Product ID

23594017

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