| BANNED A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology Frederick Rowe Davis New Haven: Yale University Press, November 2014 |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-300-20517-6 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-300-20517-1 | 264pp. | HC/BWI | $40.00 | |
| Preface | ix | |
| Acknowledgments | xv | |
| List of Abbreviations | xix | |
| Chapter 1: | Toxicology Emerges in Public Health Crises | 1 |
| Chapter 2: | DDT and Environmental Toxicology | 38 |
| Chapter 3: | The University of Chicago Toxicology Laboratory | 72 |
| Chapter 4: | The Toxicity of Organophosphate Chemicals | 91 |
| Chapter 5: | What's the Risk? Legislators and Scientists Evaluate Pesticides | 116 |
| Chapter 6: | Rereading Silent Spring | 153 |
| Chapter 7: | Pesticides and Toxicology After the DDT Ban | 187 |
| Chapter 8: | Roads Taken | 214 |
| Epilogue: Risk, Benefit, and Uncertainty | 221 | |
| Notes | 225 | |
| Index | 253 | |
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