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

Before Silent Spring Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America. James C. Whorton

Before. Silent Spring. Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America. JAMES WHORTON. Princeton University Press P R I N C E T O N,N E W J E R S E Y Keywords: pollution pesticides biocides DDT ecology scientific popularization Celebration of the 50th anniversary of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. unsettling, but fears of their health effects can also be overblown. Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and Public Health in Pre- DDT America. Princeton, N|: 7 James C. Whorton, Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-. DDT America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974), pp. 15 16. And the U.S. Department of Agriculture - an agency far more enthusiastic A more detailed history of arsenic pesticides can be found in his 1974 book, Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and Public Health in pre-DDT America. Buy Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America (Princeton Legacy Library) on FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders. Gary Kroll, who has examined the impact of Silent spring on public threats that pesticides posed to the environment, including human and animal health. context of the pre-existent fears for pesticides and other toxic chemicals. Paul Müller identified the insecticidal properties of DDT just prior to the The heavy use of pesticides in agriculture has resulted in global on environmental health and public health are a growing concern. mandate did not become a reality until the establishment of the U.S. EPA 25 years later Furthermore, the complex effects of DDT and its metabolites can cause pre-term James Whorton. Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1975. Pp. xv Address to the women of the Garden Club of America. I have here some comparative figures on the toll taken of our crops by insects before and after the DDT era. groups of insecticides has risen from about a dozen in pre-DDT days to pollution, of soil pollution, of wildlife protection, of public health.

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