Toxic Colonialism

Paull, John

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Toxic Colonialism

Date

2007-11-03

Authors

Paull, John

Publisher

New Scientist

Abstract

The recent World Health Organisation (WHO) decision to reverse previous policy, and to now recommend the spraying of the bedroom walls of poor Africans with DDT, is characterised as an exercise in "toxic colonialism".