Pyrrhic Progress analyses over half a century of antibiotic use, regulation, and resistance in
US and British food production. Mass-introduced after 1945, antibiotics helped revolutionize …

Chemical agents have been employed in pest control for centuries, but during the second
half of the nineteenth century their use intensified considerably. The increasing international …

Honey is a matrix noted for its wide consumption as a sweetener and its anti-inflammatory,
antioxidant, and antimicrobial properties; however, its physicochemical quality can be …

The negative effects of pesticide use in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) are often
blamed on the “misuse” of pesticides. The industry and government narrative is that the use …

Most historiographies of the crossroads of environmental and reproductive health in 20th
century start and end with the case of thalidomide. Despite its global scope, thalidomide …

Over eight decades of mass antimicrobial exposures have changed microbial populations
and genes at a global level. This thought piece argues that adequately responding to the …

We introduce three topics that characterize research in and of the Anthropocene: terrestrial
scales (temporal, systemic, and spatial); accountability within and beyond the social …

In this anthropocentric era, toxicity has become inseparable from ecocritical and
environmental discourse. All of Life is contaminated by toxic agencies, affecting natural …

Many horticulturists in the 1950s used nicotine-based products both for personal
consumption and for pesticidal application. Growers in postwar Norwegian horticulture were …

This article will provide a review of recent historical scholarship on toxic products. It will start
by discussing studies on the history of nineteenth-century criminal poisoning and continue …