Reading for this course:

 
Required:  Crucibles: The Story of Chemistry by Bernard Jaffe

    Additional Recommended Reading:
 

A Short History of Chemistry by Isaac Asimov

The History of Chemistry by John Hudson

Required:  The Double Helix by James D. Watson

    Additional Recommended Reading:
 

The Path to the Double Helix by Robert C. Olby

Rosalind Franklin & DNA by Anne Sayre
 

Required:  The Structure of Scientific Revolution by Thomas S. Kuhn

    Additional Recommended Reading:
 

The Scientific Revolution by Steven Shapin

Required:  Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

    Additional Recommended Reading:

Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival?-A Scientific Detective Story by  Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, John Peterson Myers

 

The Making of a Conservative Environmentalist by Gordon K. Durnil

The Schedule for Readings  in the Course
 
 
 

A Good starting point for reading the original chemical literature:

The Journal of the American Chemical Society

The Library Collection

Finally, the library has a large collections of books and journals, many of which are relevant to this course. You can perform online searches by clicking on the line below. Your computer must have telnet installed to use this capability.

Mirlyn - the University of Michigan Online Library Catalogue

Internet Sources of Material

The internet has a wealth of material available on-line.  Keep in mind that most of the information published on the internet has not been formally reviewed by scholars.  In this sense, the information is often considerably less reliable than that found published in books by major university presses and publishing houses.