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.
"In Natural Defense, Emily Monosson introduces readers to
scientists grappling with both human and landscape health and
trying to work with, instead of beat back, nature. A hopeful vision
of how humans might thrive on this planet."--Kristin Ohlson, author
of "The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are
Healing the Soil to Save the Planet"
"Natural Defense guides us through a lively, provocative
consideration of more ecologically balanced approaches to a
disease-free future...Monosson presents a vision for a future in
which we embrace our role in--and learn to harness the
transformative potential of--the planet's web of biological
relationships. In that humility, we may finally find the North Star
on our journey toward a sustainable, healthy future." --
"Science"
"In Natural Defense: Enlisting Bugs and Germs to Protect Our Food
and Health, Dr. Emily Monosson takes us on a tour of new
technologies coming down the pipeline, based on biology and often
high-performance computing rather than chemistry...Natural Defense
is well-written and accessible, full of anecdotes and real-world
examples and not too heavy on jargon."-- "Journal of Environmental
Studies and Sciences"
"Reading this compact, compelling book is mostly an uplifting
experience--Monosson does, after all, spotlight solutions--but the
environmental and public health problems for which they are
designed can be formidable....With a willingness to stand back and
look at the world in a different way, perhaps we will enter a new
age of working with nature as we continue to improve human
well-being."-- "Earth Island Journal"
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