DDT wars
Subtitle: rescuing our national bird, preventing cancer, and creating the Environmental Defense Fund
By: Charles F. Wurster
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780190219413
Subjects: Physiological effect; Health promotion; DDT (Insecticide); Toxicology; Environmental aspects; Environmental health; Environmental Defense Fund
Description: DDT Wars is the untold inside story of the decade-long scientific, legal, and strategic campaign that culminated in the nation ban of the insecticide DDT in 1972.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-214) and index.