DDT : : Scientists, Citizens, and Public Policy / / Thomas Dunlap.
From the time the public learned of DDT's dramatic containment of a typhus epidemic in Naples during World War II to the ban on DDT by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1972, this is the story of the controversial pesticide and its part in the rise of the environmental movement.Originally...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1981 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
1080 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- Part One. Preparation For DDT
- Chapter 1. Economic Entomology and Insecticides
- Chapter 2. Human Health and Insecticide Residues
- Part Two. Learning About DDT
- Chapter 3. Applying Old Lessons
- Chapter 4. Wildlife and DDT
- Chapter 5. Storm over Silent Spring
- Part Three. Changing Directions
- Chapter 6. Moving toward Court
- Chapter 7. A Legal Tour of Round River
- Chapter 8. Is It Safe and Necessary?
- Chapter 9. Final Rounds
- Epilogue. Qualified Victory
- Appendixes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index