 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
Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares (University of Washington Press, 1995) examines the causes of the forest health crisis on western national forests. Forest Dreams won the 1997 Forest History Society book prize for best book in forest and conservation history published in the preceding two years. 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 dilemm as 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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