Deborah Blum
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley set out to ensure food safety. He selected food tasters to test various food additives and preservatives, letting them know that the substances could be harmful or deadly. The tasters were recognized for their courage, and became known as the poison squad.
"By the end of the nineteenth century, food in America was increasingly dangerous-- lethal, even. Milk and meat were routinely preserved with formaldehyde, a practice...
Author
Language
English
Description
Writing with the high style and skill for suspense characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, Deborah Blum shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. In The Poisoner's Handbook she draws from original research to track the fascinating, perilous days when forensic scientists Charles Norris and Alexander Gettler began their trailblazing chemical detective work, in an era when untraceable poisons offered an easy path to...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
By the close of the Industrial Revolution, the American food supply was tainted-- by frauds, fakes, and legions of new, untested chemicals-- all threatening the health of consumers across the country. Based on the critically acclaimed book by Deborah Blum, it tells the story of crusading government chemist Harvey Washington Wiley, the man who led the pure food movement against the food manufacturing industry in the early years of the twentieth century,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
x, 322 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The startling coming-of-age story of famed anthropologist Margaret Mead, whose radical ideas challenged the social and sexual norms of her time. The story begins in 1923, when twenty-two-year-old Margaret Mead is living in New York City, engaged to her childhood sweetheart, and on the verge of graduating from college. Seemingly a conventional young lady, she marries but shocks friends when she decides to keep her maiden name. After starting graduate...
