Guest Editorial: Health, Equity, and the Built Environment
Environmental Health PerspectivesPublished 1 May 2005Open access
Howard Frumkin
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The modern era of environmental health dates from the publication of Silent Spring, when Rachel Carson warned of the effects of pesticides on wildlife ecology, invoking a nightmarish die-off of songbirds in the book’s title.
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