 To read my earlier essay on endocrine disruptors, "Gender Transformed," which appeared in Seeing Nature Through Gender (University of Kansas Press 2003), click here. To read my essay "The Retreat from Precaution," about the regulation of diethylstilbestrol, one of the key case studies in the book, click here. Pre-order at Yale University Press.
Praise for Toxic Bodies “Nancy Langston has given us a deeply disturbing analysis of government neglect of synthetic hormones. By taking us back to the beginning of the twentieth century, she traces the failure of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to protect society from hormonally active drugs, growth stimulants fed to livestock, and chemical ingredients in plastics. This is a wonderful history, woven together by deep insight into both public health and ecology, one with many lessons for modern precautionary policy.You owe it to your children and future generations to pay attention to this book. And we all owe Langston a debt of gratitude for illuminating a global hormonal chemical experiment that is wildly out of control.”
—John Wargo, Professor of Risk Analysis and Political Science, Yale University
“In this fascinating and sometimes terrifying book, Nancy Langston traces the history of DES, one of the earliest endocrine-disrupting chemicals to be widely released into the environment...and into the bodies of human beings and other organisms. It is a cautionary tale with profound implications for all of us.”
—William Cronon, author of Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West and Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature  You can read the first chapter at the Washington Post book review site.
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 Where Land and Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed (University of Washington Press, 2003) focuses on dilemmas over riparian management in the West. This study examines the ways different cultures have transformed riparian systems and the ways scientific and cultural ideas of nature have affected those transformations.
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