Nancy langston, a professor in the department of forest and wildlife ecology with a joint appointment in the nelson institute for environmental studies at the. Toxic bodies yale 2010 and the forthcoming sustaining lake superior yale 2017. Nancy langston, professor of environmental history at michigan tech, tells stories of ecological change and social upheaval in her book, where land and water meet. Carefully researched, scientifically literature, appropriately transnational, handsomely illustrated, and engagingly written, this book is a shining example of environmental history at its best.
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Nancy langston, environmental historian, university of wisconsinmadison. Actually, everyone should read this book, and then contact their government representatives and insist on stricter regulations and overall transarency with regards to synthetic chemicals that enter our bodies through a mariad of ways. In this fascinating and sometimes terrifying book, nancy langston traces the history of des, one of the earliest endocrinedisrupting chemicals to be widely released into the environment. Nancy langston has given us a deeply disturbing analysis of government neglect of synthetic. Exposing the deep problems with american regulatory agencies, how cultural conceptions about gender have shaped our response to and use of synthetic chemicals, and how our national faith in. Your childrens books may be toxic classic tales run afoul of stricter lead law, but it shouldnt be your biggest worry. Praise for toxic bodies nancy langston has given us a deeply disturbing analysis of government neglect of synthetic hormones. Nancy langston 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 first to be identified as a hormone. Nancy langston social sciences michigan technological. Her books include forest dreams, forest nightmares uwpress 1995. Nancy langston is professor of environmental history in the department of social sciences at michigan technological university. Hormone disruptors and the legacy of des kindle edition by langston, nancy. Nancy langston is professor of environmental history at michigan technological university and the author of three books, including toxic bodies.
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Social sciences, michigan technological university. It jars the reader when nancy langston declares the bodies of american women to be toxic waste sites, but that is precisely what she does. As langston writes, lake superiors history teaches us that human histories are intimately linked to the watershed, and the quality of water determines the quality of life. Photo by mike devries the capital times nancy langston is an environmental historian at the university of wisconsinmadison. Having recently completed toxic bodies i chose to title my thoughts as noted above.
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