In this Book
- DDT: Scientists, Citizens, and Public Policy
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Princeton University Press
- Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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 published in 1981.
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Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-v
- INTRODUCTION
- pp. 3-10
- ABBREVIATIONS
- pp. 11-14
- Part OnePREPARATION FORDDT
- Part TwoLEARNING ABOUT DDT
- 3. Applying Old Lessons
- pp. 59-75
- 4. Wildlife and DDT
- pp. 76-97
- 5. Storm over Silent Spring
- pp. 98-125
- Part ThreeCHANGING DIRECTIONS
- 6. Moving toward Court
- pp. 129-154
- 7. A Legal Tour of Round River
- pp. 155-176
- 8. Is It Safe and Necessary?
- pp. 177-196
- 9. Final Rounds
- pp. 197-230
- EPILOGUE. Qualified Victory
- pp. 231-245
- APPENDIX B. DDT
- pp. 247-248
- APPENDIX C. DDT in Human Fat
- pp. 249-250
- APPENDIX E. Production of Pesticides
- pp. 253-254
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- pp. 289-309