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In 1941 the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of diethylstilbestrol (DES), the first synthetic chemical to be marketed as an estrogen and one of the

Describes the author's Italian family who immigrated to New Jersey next to another immigrant family, only to find their bodies and dreams destroyed due to the r

We are running a collective chemical fever that we cannot break. Everyone everywhere now carries a dizzying array of chemical contaminants, the by-products of m

Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relat

Toxic Airs brings together historians of medicine, environmental historians, historians of science and technology, and interdisciplinary scholars to address atm