Research Catalog

Title

Our children's toxic legacy : how science and law fail to protect us from pesticides / John Wargo.

Author

Wargo, John, 1950-

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, c1996.

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Details

Description

xvi, 380 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.

Summary

• During this century, hundreds of billions of pounds of pesticides have been released to the global environment. How are we exposed to them? What can we do to protect ourselves? In this extraordinary analysis, John Wargo, one of the nation's leading experts in pesticide policy, traces the history of pesticide law and science, with a focus on the special hazards faced by children.
• Wargo presents a compelling case that children are more heavily exposed to some pesticides than adults and are especially vulnerable to some adverse effects. How should the fractured body of environmental law be repaired to manage the distribution of risk? This is the central question Wargo addresses as he suggests fundamental reforms of science and law necessary to understand and contain the health risks faced by children.

Subjects

• Children > Health risk assessment
• Pesticides > Toxicology
• United States
• Pesticides > Law and legislation > United States
• Child
• Pesticides > Environmental aspects
• Toxicology
• Health Status Indicators
• Legislation as Topic

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-369) and index.

Contents

1. The Global Experiment -- 2. The Urgency of Malaria -- 3. Resistance: A Race Against Time -- 4. Beyond Control: Pesticide Law Before 1972 -- 5. EPA as the Gatekeeper of Risk -- 6. Risk Assessment and Tolerance Setting: The Delaney Paradox -- 7. The Human Ecology of Pesticide Residues -- 8. The Susceptibility of Children -- 9. The Diet of a Child -- 10. Averaging Games: Simplification of Exposure and Risk -- 11. The Complex Mixture Problem -- 12. Fractured Law, Fractured Science: Restating the Pesticide Problem -- 13. Toward Reform.

ISBN

0300066864 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

96024990

OCLC

• ocm34973868
• SCSB-4781620

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries