Natural Defense Enlisting Bugs and Germs to Protect Our Food and Health
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- ISBN: 9781610917209
- ISBN: 1610917200
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (202 p.)
- Publisher: San Francisco : Island Press, 2017.
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General Note: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Front Cover ; About Island Press ; Subscribe ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; Chapter 1. Natural Allies: Our Bacterial Protectors ; Chapter 2. Natural Allies: Microbial Farmhands ; Chapter 3. The Enemy of Our Enemy Is Our Friend: Infecting the Infection ; Chapter 4. The Enemy of Our Enemy is Our Friend: Replacing Pesticides with Nature's Chemistry ; Chapter 5. Provocation: Disease-Resistant GMOs ; Chapter 6. Provocation: The Next Generation of Vaccines? ; Chapter 7. Know Thine Enemy: Images of Disease-- Chapter 8. Know Thine Enemy: The Future of Diagnostics Epilogue ; Notes ; Index ; IP Board of Directors. |
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Subject: | Environmental health Ecological engineering Ecological engineering Environmental health |
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Natural Defense : Enlisting Bugs and Germs to Protect Our Food and Health
Emily Monosson is an environmental toxicologist and writer. She is an independent scholar at the Ronin Institute and an adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Unnatural Selection: How We are Changing Life, Gene by Gene and Evolution in a Toxic World: How Life Responds to Chemical Threats, and editor of Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out.