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How to Sell a Poison

How to Sell a Poison ambix, 2022, 1–1 Book Review How to Sell a Poison.ByELENA CONIS. Pp. 388, index. Bold Type Books: New York. 2022. £25.00. ISBN: 9-781-64-503674-6 (hardcover). ISBN 9-781-6403675-3 (ebook). Elena Conis, writer and historian of medicine, public health, and the environment, presents a new point of view of the very complex history of DDT in the United States. The book under review is organised in a classical tripartite narrative structure, from “war hero” to decades of conflict over the pesticide’s toxicity, to “pariah turned exception.” The organisation of the book helps readers to follow the tangled history of pesticides. Conis shows how the domi- nant historical narrative of pesticides focuses on DDT and on its transformations after the Second World War. Conis, professor at University of California Berkeley, has published other relevant publications on the topic, notably her first book, Vaccine Nation: America’s Changing Relationship with Immunization, which discussed the triumph of science over disease and has received a number of prestigious awards. The first part of the book, “The Rise of DDT,” starts with the discovery of DDT and its pesticidal properties by Paul Müller at the Geigy laboratories in Switzerland. The rise of DDT started when it was first http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Ambix Taylor & Francis

How to Sell a Poison

Pérez-Criado, Silvia
Ambix , Volume 70 (2): 2 – Apr 3, 2023
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© 2022 Silvia Pérez-Criado
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1745-8234
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ambix, 2022, 1–1 Book Review How to Sell a Poison.ByELENA CONIS. Pp. 388, index. Bold Type Books: New York. 2022. £25.00. ISBN: 9-781-64-503674-6 (hardcover). ISBN 9-781-6403675-3 (ebook). Elena Conis, writer and historian of medicine, public health, and the environment, presents a new point of view of the very complex history of DDT in the United States. The book under review is organised in a classical tripartite narrative structure, from “war hero” to decades of conflict over the pesticide’s toxicity, to “pariah turned exception.” The organisation of the book helps readers to follow the tangled history of pesticides. Conis shows how the domi- nant historical narrative of pesticides focuses on DDT and on its transformations after the Second World War. Conis, professor at University of California Berkeley, has published other relevant publications on the topic, notably her first book, Vaccine Nation: America’s Changing Relationship with Immunization, which discussed the triumph of science over disease and has received a number of prestigious awards. The first part of the book, “The Rise of DDT,” starts with the discovery of DDT and its pesticidal properties by Paul Müller at the Geigy laboratories in Switzerland. The rise of DDT started when it was first

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