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Mitchell R. Zavon
Zavon was member of the Dept. of Industrial Medicine and the Kettering Institute at the University of Cincinatti. He was also a consultant to Shell Oil Company. He was a member of the NRC sub-committee on Evaluation of Pesticide-Wildlife Problems. You may also consider the work of Louis McLean, General Secretary of Velsicol (manufacturers of chlordane and heptachlor).
Be sure to review Chaps. 1-3,7,12-13 of Silent Spring. You should be able to comment on the benefits of pesticides, health/safety(?) and the control of nature.
Bibliography
Graham, Since Silent Spring
Evaluation of Pesticide-Wildlife Problems. Subcommittee on Evaluation of Pesticide-Wildlife Problems of the Committee on Pest Control and Wildlife Relationships. Washington D.C.: National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council. 1962.
See Chemical Weekly, July-Sept. 1962.
Darby, William J. 1961. "Silence, Miss Carson". Chem. & Eng. News (Oct. 1): 62-63.
Consider also the books by Lavine & Zimmerman, Leary & Fishbein, and Whorton about early DDT use.
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