The Edge of the Sea
education
inspiring environmentalism
persuasiveness
The Sea Around Us
Silent Spring 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
Under the Sea-Wind
zero tolerance notion
Carson, Robert
Cerletti, Ugo
Chemical warfare
Chesterton, G. K.
Chimpanzees, experiments on
China
emigrants
obesity
opium
starvation
Chlorine gas 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
Chlorpromazine
Cholesterol 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Cigarette smoking 8.1
Clift, Montgomery
Codeine
Cohen, Sarah
Contraceptives
Coolidge, Calvin
Corey, Robert
Cousteau, Jacques
Crabs
Crichton, Michael
Crick, Francis 7.1, 7.2
Crisco
Cronon, William
Crookes, Sir William
Cruz, Ted
D
Dahmer, Jeffrey
Darrow, Clarence
Davenport, Charles 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
DDT
bans on 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
disease prevention 6.1, 6.2
effectiveness 6.1, 6.2
history
killing birds 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
number of lives saved by
protecting birds
safety of
Silent Spring’s criticism of
as synonymous with poison
Dead zones
DeBaufre, Charles, Jr.
DeJarnette, Joseph
Derian, Patricia
Diacetylmorphine
Diagoras of Melos
Diamond, Legs
DNA 7.1, 7.2, 8.1
Douglas, William O. 6.1, 6.2
Dreser, Heinrich 1.1, 1.2
Duesberg, Peter 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Dully, Howard
DuPont
E
E-cigarettes
Eastman, George
Eckenhoff, Roderic G.
EDF (Environmental Defense Fund)
Edgar, Russ
The Edge of the Sea (Carson)
Einstein, Albert 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 7.1, 7.2
Electroshock therapy
Eli Lilly (company)
Engler, Carl
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
Environmental legislation 6.1, 6.2
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
creation of 6.1, 6.2
DDT ban 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
Essential elements
Eugenics
Britain
Buck v. Bell 4.1
forced sterilization 4.1, 4.2
government support for
influential support for
institutional support for 4.1, 4.2
as international phenomenon
laws 4.1, 4.2
Nazi Germany
opposition to 4.1, 4.2
in popular culture
public support for
racial purity 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
religious support for
scientific support for 4.1, 4.2
United States 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Evans, Hiram Wesley
F
Farley, Chris
Fat, dietary 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
see also Saturated fats; Trans fats; Unsaturated fats
FDA (Food and Drug Administration)
and BPA 8.1, 8.2
and HIV tests and drugs
and MMS therapy
and OxyContin 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
and saccharin
support for low-fat diet
and trans fats 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Feeblemindedness 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Fertilizer 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
Field, James
Finneran, James
Fisher, Irving
Flu vaccine
Food and Drug Administration see FDA
Food distribution
Foreman, Carol Tucker
Franck, James 3.1, 3.2
Frank, Anne
Free radicals
Freeman, Walter Jackson 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 7.1
The French Connection (movie)
Frieden, Tom 1.1
Frontal lobes 5.1, 5.2
see also Lobotomies
Fulton, John 5.1, 5.2
G
Gage, Phineas
Galen (Greek physician)
Gallo, Robert
Galton, Francis 4.1, 4.2
Garfield, James A.
Garland, Clarence
Garvey, Marcus
Gases, poison
Gawande, Atul
Geiger, Hans
General anesthesia
Genetics
GMOs
Mendel’s studies 4.1, 4.2
see also Eugenics
Germany see Hitler, Adolf; Nazi Germany
Ginsberg, Allen
Glucksmann, Hilde
GMOs 8.1, 8.2
Goertzel, Ted and Ben
Goethe, C. M.
Gore, Al
Grant, Madison 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Graves, James
Grosz, George
Gruening, Ernest
Guiteau, Charles
H
Haber, Clara 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Haber, Elyse
Haber, Frieda (Hilde Glucksmann)
Haber, Fritz
academic career 3.1, 3.2
ammonia from nitrogen 3.1, 3.2
birth and childhood
chemical warfare
death
education 3.1, 3.2
friendship with Einstein 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
honors and awards
hydrogen cyanide (HCN)
as Jew 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
leaving Germany
marriages 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Nobel Prize 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
relationship with father 3.1, 3.2
on science as sovereign
as war criminal 3.1, 3.2
World War I 3.1, 3.2
Haber, Hermann 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
Haber, Paula 3.1, 3.2
Haber, Siegfried 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Hackman, Gene
Hague Conventions 3.1, 3.2
Hahn, Otto
Hammatt, Alice
Hannibal (Carthaginian general)
Harriman, E. H.
HCN (hydrogen cyanide)
HDL cholesterol
Heart disease
background
and dietary fat
incidence in U.S.
and megavitamins
and saturated fats
and trans fats 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
and unsaturated fats
Heckler, Margaret
Hegsted, Mark
Hellman, Lillian
Henry, Thomas
Hepatitis B vaccine
Hepburn, Katharine
Heroin
Hertz, Gustav
Hesiod
Hess, Rudolf
High-density lipoprotein cholesterol
Hindenburg, Paul von
Hippocrates
Hitler, Adolf itr.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2
see also Nazi Germany
HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) 7.1, 8.1
Hoffman, Philip Seymour
Hoffmann, Felix
Hofmann, Otto
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
Homeopathy
Hoover, Herbert
Hospice movement
Howard, Jane
Huckins, Olga
Hul gil (plant of joy) itr.1, 1.1
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) 7.1, 8.1
Humble, Jim
Humphrey, Hubert
Hydrogen
Hydrogen cyanide (HCN)
Hydrogenated oils
Hydrogenation
Hygiene hypothesis
I
Immigrants and immigration
assimilation
fear of 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5
Trump’s attacks on
U.S. laws
Ingraham, Laura
Insulin shock therapy
Intelligence quotient (IQ) tests
Ionesco, Sallie
IQ tests
J
J. R. Geigy Company
Jacobsen, Carlyle
Jesus
Jews
eugenics 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Hitler’s treatment of 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
immigration to U.S.
in Nazi Germany 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Jones, James P.
Joplin, Janis
Jordan, David Starr
K
Kaempffert, Waldemar
Kaposi’s sarcoma
Keats, John
Keen, William Williams 5.1, 5.2
Kellogg, John Harvey
Kennedy, John F. 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2
Kennedy, Joseph P. 5.1, 5.2
Kennedy, Rose
Kennedy, Rosemary 5.1, 5.2
Kerouac, Jack
Kesey, Ken
Keys, Ancel 2.1, 2.2
Kochi, Arata
Kolata, Gina
Kritchevsky, David
Ku Klux Klan 4.1, 4.2
L
Lansky, Meyer
Laudanum
Laughlin, Harry 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Lazarus, Emma
LDL cholesterol
Le Rossignol, Robert 3.1, 3.2
Learning from the past
be cautious about being cautious
beware the quick fix
beware the zeitgeist
the dose makes the poison
everything has a price
it’s all about the data
pay attention to the little man behind the curtain
Lee, Harper 1.1
Leopold, Nathan
Leucotomy see Lobotomies
Levitt, Norman
Levy, Robert
Lice
Liebermann, Carl
Lievertz, Randolph W.
Lilly, Eli
Lima, Almeida 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Limbaugh, Rush
Lin Tse-hsu
Lincoln, Mary Todd
Linnaeus, Carl
Lippmann, Walter
Lobotomies
autism scenario
deaths from 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
ice pick method 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
media support for 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
number performed 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
opposition to 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
in popular culture
Portugal 5.1, 5.2
reasons for acceptance of
repeat procedures 5.1, 5.2
side effects 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6
United States 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Loeb, Richard
Louis-Dreyfus, Julia
Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol
Luciano, Charles “Lucky”
M
Maathai, Wangari
Malaria 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Malaria therapy
Mammographies
The Man with the Golden Arm (Algren)
Margarine 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Marra, Anthony
Mays, Billy
Mbeki, Thabo
McCarthy, Joseph
McGovern, George 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
McMullen, Jay
McVeigh, Timothy
Measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine 8.1, 8.2
Meduna, Ladislas Joseph
Megavitamins 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Mège-Mouriès, Hippolyte 2.1
Meiners, Roger
Meitner, Lise
Mencken, H. L.
Mendel, Gregor 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Mengele, Josef
Mental illness, treatments for
see also Lobotomies
Mercury
Metrazol shock therapy
Mexican immigrants to U.S.
Mexico, Gulf of
Meyer, Adolf
Microbiome
Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS)
Mitchell, Joni 6.1, 6.2
Mittasch, Alwin
MMR vaccine 8.1, 8.2
MMS (Miracle Mineral Solution)
Moertel, Charles
Moniz, Egas 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
Montagnier, Luc 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Morgan, Thomas Hunt
Morphine 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Mottern, Nick
Müller, Paul 6.1, 6.2
Mullis, Kary
Murphy, Donald
Muslims, Trump’s attacks on
Mustard gas
N
Napoleon III, Emperor (France)
Nazi Germany
chemical warfare
eugenics
euthanasia
treatment of Jews 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
see also Hitler, Adolf
Nernst, Walther
Nero, Emperor (Rome)
Nicholson, Jack
Nitrates 3.1, 3.2
Nitrogen 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Nitrogen fixation 3.1, 3.2
Nixon, Richard 1.1, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2
Nobel Prize disease
Normann, Wilhelm 2.1, 2.2
Novella, Steven
O
Obesity
Oklahoma City bombing
Oleomargarine see Margarine
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (movie)
Opioids 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Opium
active ingredients
addictive nature of 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
ancient uses
in China
Colombian production
deaths from
discovery
Golden Triangle
laudanum
medicinal uses 1.1, 1.2
patent medicines
in U.S. 1.1, 1.2
see also Heroin; Morphine; Oxycodone
Oppenheimer, Robert
Oral polio vaccine
Orwell, George
Osborn, Henry Fairfield
Osler, William
Oxycodone 1.1, 1.2
OxyContin
addictiveness 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
black market
deaths from 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
lawsuit against
opioid maintenance therapy
profits from 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
“tamper-resistant” product
timed-release formulation 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Oxygen
P
Paige, Satchel
Pain management
CDC guidelines
costs of
multidisciplinary approach
opium 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
oxycodone
OxyContin
war on pain
Pallone, Frank, Jr.
Pandora’s box itr.1, epl.1
Paracelsus (Swiss physician) 1.1, 6.1
Partially hydrogenated vegetable oils 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Passik, Steven
Paton, Stewart
Pauling, Ava Helen 7.1, 7.2
Pauling, Linus
awards and honors 7.1, 7.2
legacy 7.1, 7.2
megavitamin assumptions
megavitamin experiments
“The Nature of the Chemical Bond”
Nobel Prizes
as peace activist
persuasiveness
“A Proposed Structure for the Nucleic Acids” 7.1, 7.2
“Sickle Cell Anemia”
and Stone 7.1, 7.2
“The Structure of Proteins”
vanity 7.1, 8.1
vitamin C claims
vitamin C consumption 7.1, 7.2
“Wizard of Oz” effect 7.1, 8.1
Peanuts cartoon
Penn and Teller
Perutz, Max
Pest control
; Pesticides 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
see also DDT
Phosgene gas 3.1, 3.2
Phytochemicals
Pius XI, Pope
Planck, Max 3.1, 3.2
Poison gases
Polio vaccines
Portenoy, Russell 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 7.1
Presley, Elvis
Price, Catherine
Pritikin, Nathan
Procter, William
Prometheus
Prostate cancer
Prowazek, Stanislaus von
PSA test
Purdue Pharma 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
R
Retroviruses
Ribicoff, Abraham
Ricketts, Howard
Roberts, Donald
Robinson, Arthur
Rodell, Marie
Romans, opium use
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, Theodore 4.1, 4.2
Rosenblum, Marc
Rotavirus vaccine
Rothstein, William
Ruckelshaus, William 6.1, 6.2
Russell, Michael
Rust, Bernard 3.1, 3.2
Rutherford, Ernest
S
Saccharin
Sakel, Manfred
Sanger, Margaret 4.1, 4.2
Sanitation
Saturated fats 2.1, 2.2
Saunders, Cicely 1.1, 1.2
Scarver, Christopher
Scheider, Roy
Scheüch, Heinrich
Schizophrenia 5.1, 5.2, 8.1
Schultz, Dutch
The Sea Around Us (Carson)
The Sea Around Us (movie)
Sertürner, Friedrich 1.1, 1.2
Sevareid, Eric
Shaw, George Bernard
Shaw, Judith
Shelley, Mary
Shock therapy
Sickle-cell disease
Silent Spring (Carson) 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
Sinatra, Frank
Sipes, Glenn
Sokolof, Phil
South Korea, thyroid cancer
Southard, E. E.
Speer, Albert
Spiro, Jonathan
Stanford-Binet test 4.1, 4.2
Stark, Johannes
Starvation 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Sterilization, forced 4.1, 4.2
Stone, Irwin 7.1, 7.2
Sullivan, Walter
Sumerians itr.1, 1.1
Supreme Court, U.S. 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Sweeney, Edward
Swine flu vaccine
Sydenham, Thomas
T
Taft, William Howard
Taubes, Gary
Taylor, Elizabeth
Terry, Luther
Thimerosal
Thorazine
Thyroid cancer
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, West Virginia
Trans fats 2.1, 2.2
Treblinka concentration camp
Trump, Donald itr.1, 4.1, 4.2
Twain, Mark
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Verne)
Twillman, Robert
Typhus
U
Under the Sea-Wind (Carson)
Unintended consequences, myth of
Unsaturated fats 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
V
Vaccines itr.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5
Valiunas, Algis
Velsicol (pesticide company) 6.1
Verne, Jules
Verschuer, Otmar Freiherr von
Very low-density lipoprotein (vLDL) cholesterol
Virginia, forced sterilization
Vitamins and supplements
megavitamins 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
oxidation-antioxidation balance
unregulated nature of
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