How to Sell a Poison

April 7, 2022

The book cover of How to Sell a Poison by Elena Conis. A woman in a 1940s style swimsuit is drinking from a straw.In her new book, Elena Conis, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, follows the history of the chemical compound of DDT from its postwar farms and factories uses to the seats of power favoring its commodification.