BANNED

Reviewed 6/28/2015

Banned, by Frederick Rowe Davis

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San Jose, CA Public Library
BANNED
A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology
Frederick Rowe Davis
New Haven: Yale University Press, November 2014

Rating:

4.5

High
ISBN-13 978-0-300-20517-6
ISBN-10 0-300-20517-1 264pp. HC/BWI $40.00

Selected References

I've assembled here a list of books and a few Web sites taken from the Notes to Banned. It's kind of rough-looking right now; I plan to gussy it up soon.

CHAPTER 1 NOTES

  1. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West — William Cronon (W. W. Norton, 1991)
  2. Pure Food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906 — James Harvey Young (Princeton University Press, 1989)
  3. The Health of a Nation: Harvey W. Wiley and the Fight for Pure Food — Oscar E. Anderson Jr. (University of Chicago Press, 1958)
  4. Chemistry and Modern Society: Historical Essays [...] — Parascandola & Whorton, eds. (American Chemical Society, 1983)
  5. Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and Public Health [...] — James C. Whorton (Princeton University Press, 1974)
  6. Food and Drug Legislation in the New Deal — Charles O. Jackson (Princeton University Press, 1970)
  7. Protecting America's Health: The FDA, Business, and [...] — Philip J. Hilts (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003)
  8. Reputation and Power: Organization Image and [...] — Daniel Carpenter (Princeton University Press, 2010)
  9. The Great Gypsy Moth War: A History [...] — Robert J. Spear (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005)
  10. Pesticides and Politics: The Life Cycle of a Public Issue — Christopher Bosso (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987)
  11. Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to [...] — Christopher Sellers (University of North Carolina Press, 1997)
  12. Brush with Death: A Social History of Lead Poisoning — Christian Warren (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000)
  13. Deadly Dust: Silicosis and [...] — Rosner & Markowitz (Princeton University Press, 1991)
  14. Science and Corporate Strategy: Dupont R&D, 1902-1980 — Hounshell & Smith (Cambridge University Press, 1988)
  15. The Cancer Wars: How Politics Shapes What We Know [...] — Robert Proctor (Basic Books, 1995)
  16. The Polluters: The Making of our Chemically Altered Environment — Ross & Amter (Oxford University Press, 2000)
  17. 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs: Dangers in Everyday Foods, Drugs, and Cosmetics — Kallett & Schlink (Grossett & Dunlap, 1933)
  18. American Chamber of Horrors: the Truth about Food and Drugs — Ruth deForest Lamb (J. J. Little & Ives, 1936)

CHAPTER 2 NOTES

  1. War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals [...] — Edmund Russell (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
  2. DDT — Thomas R. Dunlap
  3. Insect, Experts, and the Insecticide Crisis: The quest for New Management Strategies — John H. Perkins (Plenum Press, 1982)
  4. From Arsenic to DDT: A History of Entomology in Western Canada — Paul W. Riegert (University of Toronto Press, 1980)
  5. DDT and the American Century: Global Health [...] — David Kinkela (University of North Carolina Press, 2010)
  6. Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas, 2nd ed. — Worster & Crosby, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 1994)

CHAPTER 3 NOTES

  1. The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America --Daniel J. Kevles (Alfred A. Knopf, 1978)
  2. Remembering the University of Chicago: Teachers, Scientists, and Scholars — Edward Shilts, ed. (University of Chicago Press, 1991)
  3. Organizing Scientific Research for War — Irwin Stewart (Little, Brown, 1948)
  4. Research and Relevant Knowledge — Roger L. Geiger (Oxford University Press, 1993)
  5. Chemistry: A History of the Chemical Components of the [...] — W. A. Noyes Jr, ed. (Little, Brown, 1948)
  6. Man's Mastery of Malaria — Paul F. Russell (Oxford University Press, 1955)
  7. War and Disease: Biomedical Research on Malaria in [...] — Leo Barney Slater (Rutgers University Press, 2009)
  8. Medicine and the War — William H. Taliaferro (University of Chicago Press, 1944)
  9. Hope and Suffering: Children, Cancer, and the Paradox of Experimental Medicine — Gretchen Kreuger (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)
  10. A Peril and a Hope: The Scientists' Movement in America, 1945-1947 — Alice Kimball Smith (University of Chicago Press, 1965)
  11. Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine — Angela N. H. Creager (University of Chicago Press, 2013)

CHAPTER 4 NOTES

  1. Organic Insecticides, their Chemistry and Mode of Action — Robert Lee Metcalf (Interscience Publishers, 1955)
  2. Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail To Protect Us from Pesticides — John Wargo (Yale University Press, 1998)
  3. History of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (National Library of Medicine, 1980)

CHAPTER 5 NOTES

  1. Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World War II South — Pete Daniel (Louisiana State University Press, 2005)

CHAPTER 6 NOTES

  1. Textbook of Toxicology — DuBois & Geiling (Oxford University Press, 1959)
  2. Casarett & Doull's Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons, 4th ed. — Louis Casarett & John Doull (Pergamon Press, 1991) [Now in 8th edition]
  3. Pesticides and the Living Landscape — Robert Rudd(University of Wisconsin Press, 1964)
  4. Our Synthetic Environment — Lewis Herber (Alfred A. Knopf, 1962)
  5. Silent Spring
  6. Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature — Linda Lear (Owl Books, 1998)
  7. The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson [...] — Mark Lytle (Oxford University Press, 2007)
  8. On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson — William Souder (Crown Publishers, 2012)
  9. Since Silent Spring — Frank Graham (Houghton Mifflin, 1970)
  10. Since Silent Spring — Frank Graham, Jr. (Fawcett Crest, 1970)
  11. In Sputnik's Shadow: The President's Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America — Zuoyue Wang (Rutgers University Press, 2008)
  12. Is It Safe? BPA and the Struggle To Define the Safety of Chemicals — Sarah A. Vogel (University of California Press, 2013)
  13. Chemical Consequences: Environmental Mutagens, Scientific Activism, and [...] — Scott Frickel (Rutgers University Press, 2004)
  14. Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution — Rosner & Markowitz (University of California Press, 2002)
  15. Merchants of Doubt
  16. Taking Action, Saving Lives: Our Duty To [...] — Kristin Shrader-Frechette (Oxford University Press, 2007)

CHAPTER 7 NOTES

  1. America the Poisoned: How Deadly Chemicals Are Destroying Our Environment [...] — Lewis Regenstein (Acropolis Books, 1982)
  2. Nixon and the Environment — Brooks Flippen (University of New Mexico Press, 2000)
  3. Our Stolen Future: [...] — Colborn, Dumanoski, & Myers (Dutton, 1996)
  4. Monocrotophos — American Bird Conservancy (http://www.abcbirds.org/pesticides/Profiles/monocrotophos.htm)
  5. Diazinon — American Bird Conservancy (http://www.abcbirds.org/pesticides/Profiles/diazinon.htm)
  6. Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment — Ted Schettler et al. (MIT Press, 1999)
  7. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/18/world/asia/children-die-from-tainted-lunches-at-indian-school.html?_r=0
  8. http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/bihar-school-deaths-highlight-indias-struggle-with-pesticides/ monocrotophos

EPILOGUE NOTES

  1. Impact of the Nation's Most Widely Used Insecticides on Birds — Mineau & Palmer (American Bird Conservancy, 2013)
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