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The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth
By Hippel, Frank von
- ISBN
- 9780226697246
- Publisher
- Univ. of Chicago
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Reviewed on March 27, 2020 | Sci/Tech
Hippel (ecotoxicity, Northern Arizona Univ.) writes a history of pesticide development from 1845 to 1962, outlining the vital role of scientific investigation and chemical research in attempting to eradicate malaria, yellow fever, typhus, and bubonic plague. As the subtitle states, those chemical compounds have proved to be a mixed blessing to humanity. However, insecticides intended for disease vectors such as mosqu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
