Free Download Michelle Mart, "Pesticides, A Love Story: America's Enduring Embrace of Dangerous Chemicals "
English | ISBN: 0700621288 | 2015 | 344 pages | EPUB | 1434 KB
"Presto! No More Pests!" proclaimed a 1955 article introducing two new pesticides, "miracle-workers for the housewife and back-yard farmer." Easy to use, effective, and safe: who wouldn't love synthetic pesticides? Apparently most Americans did-and apparently still do. Why-in the face of dire warnings, rising expense, and declining effectiveness-do we cling to our chemicals? Michelle Mart wondered. Her book, a cultural history of pesticide use in postwar America, offers an answer.
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Mostafa A. El-Batawi, Fina Kaloianova, "Human toxicology of pesticides"
English | 2019 | pages: 209 | ISBN: 100001312X | PDF | 26,1 mb
The toxicity of pesticides has generated an extensive amount of literature, because of their domestic and public health use, and particular because of their wide use in agriculture, which employs the largest workforce in the world. This book adds new elements and provides for wider needs in the health profession. It has a thorough review of literature on the subject and results of research held in both Eastern and Western countries, which is rare to find in one volume. The literature cited is one of the largest.
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