How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT

<a href="https://rebecca-altman.com/home">Rebecca Altman</a>&nbsp;is a Providence-based writer. She holds a PhD in environmental sociology from Brown University and is working on an intimate history of plastics for Scribner Books (US) and Oneworld (UK). Her recent work on plastics and plastics-associated pollutants has appeared in The Atlantic, Orion Magazine, Science, Aeon, and The Washington Post.

Rebecca Altman

Revising the History of DDT’s Long-Tailed Legacy

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

<a href="https://rebecca-altman.com/home">Rebecca Altman</a>&nbsp;is a Providence-based writer. She holds a PhD in environmental sociology from Brown University and is working on an intimate history of plastics for Scribner Books (US) and Oneworld (UK). Her recent work on plastics and plastics-associated pollutants has appeared in The Atlantic, Orion Magazine, Science, Aeon, and The Washington Post.