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1 online resource (233 pages) |
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Reader's Guides |
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Reader's Guides
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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6 Responses to Silent SpringA 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 |
| Summary |
Silent Spring is a watershed moment in the history of environmentalism. Credited with launching the modern environmental movement, it provoked the ban on DDT in the US ten years later and it has been an inspiration for feminist health movements. Yet the shift in public health paradigms that Silent Spring enjoined is possibly its most important legacy; one that is foundational for changing the ways in which we think about the health effects of the chemical immersion that constitutes modern life. In synthesizing a jumble of scientific and medical information into a coherent, readable argument ab |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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EBL |
| Subject |
Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964. Silent spring.
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| SUBJECT |
Silent spring (Carson, Rachel) fast (OCoLC)fst01356384 |
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Pesticides -- Environmental aspects.
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Pesticides -- Toxicology.
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Pesticides and wildlife.
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Insect pests -- Biological control.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Insect pests -- Biological control.
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Pesticides and wildlife.
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Pesticides -- Environmental aspects.
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Pesticides -- Toxicology.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441132826 |
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1441132821 |
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9781474210515 |
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1474210511 |
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9781441128997 |
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1441128999 |
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