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Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America
(Hardback)
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America
Contributors:
By (Author) James C. Whorton
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
28th June 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Agriculture and farming
Dewey:
363.1792
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
306
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
Weight:
595g
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
