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

by James C. Whorton

Book Overview

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 examines the period before the publication of Rachel Carson's famous Silent Spring, tracing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691618291
• ISBN13: 9780691618296
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"