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Environmental toxicology: the legacy of Silent Spring

Christie, D. and Tansey, E. (Eds). (2004) Environmental toxicology: the legacy of Silent Spring. Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine: Vol.19. Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL: London, UK. Green open access

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Abstract

The period immediately following the Second World War brought great hopes of continuing benefits from widespread use of organochlorine and organophosphorus insecticides and other pesticides whilst the health risks of pre-war and other later practices were largely ignored. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) coincided with the adoption of a more cautious approach to the use of pesticides, and the ensuing decades have been characterized by continued identification of both natural and man-made hazards and consequent efforts to minimize risk. ‘Environmental toxicology’ has no firm boundaries, encompassing as it does such diverse areas as the health risks of passive smoking, asbestos, lead, radon, air-borne particles, and accidental release of toxic chemicals (‘chemical incidents’), some of which still await resolution. Chaired by Professor Tony Dayan, this Witness Seminar brought together many of those who helped shape understanding in this area – 40 years after the publication of Silent Spring.

Type: Book
Title: Environmental toxicology: the legacy of Silent Spring
ISBN: 0854840915
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/publications/wellcome...
Language: English
Additional information: The transcript of a Witness Seminar held by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London, London, on 12 March 2002
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/2061
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