Visuals for Public Policy -- Pesticides, 1963
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Outline

  • science & public decision-making
  • DDT & Pesticides, 1939-1950s
  • Rachel Carson & Silent Spring
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  • News, 1963
  • Simulation & Discussion
  • Epilog

      Time, Sept. 28, 1962
    1. cover: Teddy Kennedy
    2. feature: Lincoln Center -- under construction
    3. . . . & Mets stadium -- under construction
    4. back cover cigarette ad (before being outlawed!)
    5. car ad

    10. US National Academy of Sciences: Academy seal, front door panel & first building (1924)

      DDT, 1939-1950s

    11. DDT
    12. Paul Muller
    13. typhus louse
    14. Nobel Prize
    15. Naples, 1943
    16. DDT advertisement [Time]
    17. DDT spraying, Long Island, 1945
    18. DDT spraying, agricultural
      other synthetic pesticides: aldrin, chlordane, DNP

      Rachel Carson & Silent Spring

    19. Rachel Carson(!)
    20. Peanuts cartoon
    21. Rachel Carson, -- & 1951
    22. Carson's books
    23. DDT spraying
    24. Rachel Carson [~1958]
    25. New Yorker, June 16, 1962
    26. Silent Spring, 1962
    27. illustration, chapter on "Needless Havoc"
    28. illustration, title page

    29. cartoon [Yankee]
    30. cartoon [Punch]

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