Carson’s Silent Spring: A Reader’s Guide

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Note that abstract blurb not available Cover page Halftitle page BLOOMSBURY READER‘S GUIDES Title page Copyright page Dedication Contents Acknowledgements Note on Source Introducing Silent Spring: Hitchcock, Bees, and the Syrian Civil War 1 Getting to Silent Spring The making of a publishing bombshell Author, Author 2 The Post-War Machine in the Garden Control of nature Science Science—industry—government collusion Militaries, militarism, and the atomic world Crises of confidence For further discussion/exploration 3 Needless Havoc: Carson’s Case Against Pesticides The elixirs of death Fatty tissue storage and generational pass- through Ecosystem bioaccumulation and magnification Persistence and build-up Thinking like an ecosystem "Chemical death raining down": Aerial spraying Cry for the birds The aquatic holocaust Pesticides today For further discussion/exploration 4 One in Every Four Domesticating the poisons Life just not quite fatal Poison on the plate The ecology of the body Disease outcomes For further discussion/exploration 5 Alternatives Passion, wonder, and beauty Pragmatic alternatives Scientific uncertainty For further discussion/exploration 6 Responses to Silent Spring A book like no other Stigmatizing perfectly good chemicals* (*and killing Africans at the same time) Coda Notes Sources for Further Reading and Research Bibliography Index