How to sell a poison: the rise, fall, and toxic return of DDT
"In the 1940s, DDT helped the Allies win the Second World War by wiping out the insects that caused malaria, with seemingly no ill effects on humans. After the war, it was sprayed willy-nilly across fields, in dairy barns, and even in people's homes, leaving environmental and human devasta...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "In the 1940s, DDT helped the Allies win the Second World War by wiping out the insects that caused malaria, with seemingly no ill effects on humans. After the war, it was sprayed willy-nilly across fields, in dairy barns, and even in people's homes, leaving environmental and human devastation in its wake across the globe, particularly in communities of color. Thirty years later the U.S. would ban the use of DDT-only to reverse the ban in the 1990s when calls arose to bring it back to fight West Nile and malaria. What happened? How to Sell a Poison traces the surprising history of DDT in parallel to the story of a predominantly-Black town poisoned by a neighboring DDT plant. Historian Elena Conis reveals new evidence that it was not the shift in public opinion following Silent Spring's publication that led to the ban so much as the behind-the-scenes political machinations of Big Business. She argues that we've been missing the lesson of this cautionary tale and the harm caused by DDT is a symptom of a larger problem: the prioritization of profits over public health. If we don't change our approach, Conis argues, we're doomed to keep making the same mistakes and putting people-particularly the most vulnerable-at risk, both by withholding technologies that could help them and by exposing them to dangerous chemicals without their consent. In an age when corporations and politicians are shaping our world behind closed doors and deliberately stoking misinformation around public health issues, from vaccines to climate change to COVID-19, we need greater transparency and a new way of communicating about science-as a discipline of discovery that's constantly evolving, rather than a finite and immutable collection of facts-in order to restore public trust and protect ourselves and our environment"-- |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1
PROLOGUE:
FISH
FOR
THE
TABLE
7
PART
I
1
NOT
TOO
MUCH
15
2
POLIO
CITY
31
3
FLIES 39
4
PRODUCTION
50
5
ECONOMIC
POISONS 57
6
VIRUS
X 67
7
POISONED IN
OUR
OWN
HOMES
75
8
MEDICAL
STANDING
85
9
DELANEY S
CLAUSE
96
10
MOSQUITOES 104
PART
II
11
DON T
CALL IT
A
POISON
115
12
THE
POISON
BOOK
128
13
POISONED
IN
THE
FIELDS
139
VII
$
BIIOTHEK
DEUTSCHES
MUSEUM
HLUENCHE A
CONTENTS
14
A
BAN
15
THE
BIRDS
16
TOBACCO
17
THE
HEARINGS
18
DESTRUCTION
19
THE
BAN
20
TRIANA
21
ASSESSING
RISK
148
161
176
185
197
205
210
221
PART III
22
SETTLING
237
23
HAND-ME-DOWN POISONS
248
24
NESTED
STUDY
256
25
DISRUPTION
265
26
DELANEY
FALLS
275
27
BRING
BACK DDT
287
28
TIMING
MAKES
THE
POISON
304
EPILOGUE
317
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
327
SOURCE
NOTES
331
SELECTED SOURCES
AND
FURTHER READING
355
INDEX
373
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| adam_txt |
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1
PROLOGUE:
FISH
FOR
THE
TABLE
7
PART
I
1
NOT
TOO
MUCH
15
2
POLIO
CITY
31
3
FLIES 39
4
PRODUCTION
50
5
ECONOMIC
POISONS 57
6
VIRUS
X 67
7
POISONED IN
OUR
OWN
HOMES
75
8
MEDICAL
STANDING
85
9
DELANEY'S
CLAUSE
96
10
MOSQUITOES 104
PART
II
11
DON'T
CALL IT
A
POISON
115
12
THE
POISON
BOOK
128
13
POISONED
IN
THE
FIELDS
139
VII
$
BIIOTHEK
DEUTSCHES
MUSEUM
HLUENCHE'A
CONTENTS
14
A
BAN
15
THE
BIRDS
16
TOBACCO
17
THE
HEARINGS
18
DESTRUCTION
19
THE
BAN
20
TRIANA
21
ASSESSING
RISK
148
161
176
185
197
205
210
221
PART III
22
SETTLING
237
23
HAND-ME-DOWN POISONS
248
24
NESTED
STUDY
256
25
DISRUPTION
265
26
DELANEY
FALLS
275
27
BRING
BACK DDT
287
28
TIMING
MAKES
THE
POISON
304
EPILOGUE
317
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
327
SOURCE
NOTES
331
SELECTED SOURCES
AND
FURTHER READING
355
INDEX
373 |
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