Abstract:


“Environmental and Health Crises: The U.S. and the World”: examines how scientists, science writers, and policy makers grappled with threats to health and the environment in America and the world during the Twentieth Century.


Biography:


Currently a Fulbright Scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Frederick Rowe Davis is Professor and the R. Mark Lubbers History of Science Chair in the Department of History at Purdue University. He studied the history of science and medicine at Harvard, the University of Florida, and Yale where he received his Ph.D. His research interests lie at the intersection of the history of environmental science, environmental health, and environmental history. Davis recently published “Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology” (Yale University Press). He also wrote “The Man Who Saved Sea Turtles: Archie Carr and the Origins of Conservation Biology” (Oxford University Press). His current research projects include “Making Silent Spring,” a study of how Rachel Carson wrote her bestselling exposé of the ecological and health risks of chemical pesticides. He is also currently studying “Environmental and Health Crises: The U.S. and the World.”