Ebook: Carson's Silent spring: a reader's guide
Author: Seager Joni, Carson Rachel
- Tags: Bekämpningsmedel--miljöaspekter, Bekämpningsmedel och djur, Skadeinsekter, Toxikologi, Insect pests--Biological control, Pesticides--Environmental aspects, Pesticides--Toxicology, Pesticides and wildlife, Biography, Carson Rachel -- 1907-1964. -- Silent spring, Silent spring (Carson Rachel), Carson Rachel -- 1907-1964 -- Silent spring, Pesticides -- Environmental aspects, Pesticides -- Toxicology, Insect pests -- Biological control, Bekämpningsmedel -- miljöaspekter, Bekämpningsmedel och djur
- Series: Bloomsbury reader's guides
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Bloomsbury
- City: London;New York
- Language: English
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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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