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Carson's Silent spring: a reader's guide

By SEAGER , Rachel , Joni;Carson

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury
Year
2014
ISBN
9781441130662, 9781441117861, 1441117865, 1441130667
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1235062 bytes)
Series
Bloomsbury reader's guides
Pages
x, 216 pages ; 22 cm\233
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

Getting to Silent Spring. The making of a publishing bombshell -- Author, author. The post-war machine in the garden. Control of nature -- Science -- Science-industry-government collusion -- Militaries, militarisms, and the atomic world -- Crises of confidence. Needless havoc : Carson's case against pesticides. The elixirs of death -- Thinking like an ecosystem -- "Chemical death raining down" : aerial spraying -- Cry for the birds -- The aquatic holocaust -- Pesticides today. One in every four. Domesticating the poisons -- Life just not quite fatal -- Poison on the plate -- The ecology of the body -- Disease outcomes. Alternatives. Passion, wonder, and beauty -- Pragmatic alternatives -- Scientific uncertainty. Responses to Silent Spring. A book like no other -- Stigmatizing perfectly good chemicals * (*and killing Africans at the same time).

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