DDT and the American century : global health, environmental politics, and the pesticide that changed the world /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kinkela, David
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
Series:	Luther H. Hodges, Jr. and Luther H. Hodges, Sr. series on business, society, & the state.
Subjects:	DDT (Insecticide) > History > 20th century. Insect pests > Control > History > 20th century. DDT (Insecticide) > Environmental aspects. DDT > toxicity.

Table of Contents:

DDT and the American Century
An island in a sea of disease : DDT enters a global war
Disease, DDT, and development : the American Century in Italy
Science in the service of agriculture : DDT and the beginning of the green revolution in Mexico
The age of wreckers and exterminators : eradication in the postwar world
Green revolutions in conflict : debating Silent spring, food, and science during the Cold War
It's all or nothing : debating DDT and development under the law
One man's pesticide is another man's poison : the controversy continues
Rethinking DDT in a global age.