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Rachel Carson : legacy and challenge

Title

Rachel Carson : legacy and challenge / edited by Lisa H. Sideris and Kathleen Dean Moore.

Format

Book

Published

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c2008.

Description

ix, 287 p. ; 24 cm.

Other contributors

Sideris, Lisa H. Moore, Kathleen Dean.

Series

SUNY series in environmental philosophy and ethics

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• A legacy of activism and advocacy
• One patriot / Terry Tempest Williams
• Rachel Carson's scientific and ocean legacies / Jane Lubchenco
• Rachel Carson and George J. Wallace : why public environmental scientists should be advocates for nature / Peter C. List
• Ethics on land and at sea
• Rachel Carson's environmental ethics / Philip Cafaro
• Thinking like a mackerel : Rachel Carson's Under the sea-wind as a source for a trans-ecotonal sea ethic / Susan Power Bratton
• The conceptual foundations of Rachel Carson's sea ethic / J. Baird Callicott and Elyssa Back
• Rachel Carson's The sea around us, ocean-centrism, and a nascent ocean ethic / Gary Kroll
• Reflections on gender and science
• The ecological body : Rachel Carson, Silent spring, and breast cancer / Lisa H. Sideris
• Science and spirit : struggles of the early Rachel Carson / Maril Hazlett
• "Silence, miss Carson!" : science, gender, and the reception of Silent spring / Michael Smith
• An ongoing toxic discourse
• After Silent spring : ecological effects of pesticides on public health and on birds and other organisms / David Pimentel
• Contested icons : Rachel Carson and DDT / Steve Maguire
• In her footsteps / Christopher Merrill
• Living downstream of Silent spring / Sandra Steingraber
• A legacy of wonder
• The secular and religious sources of Rachel Carson's sense of wonder / Lisa H. Sideris
• How to value a flower : locating beauty in toxic landscapes / Vera Norwood
• The truth of the barnacles : Rachel Carson and the moral significance of wonder / Kathleen Dean Moore.

Subject headings

Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964. Environmental ethics. Pesticides--Environmental aspects.

ISBN

9780791474716 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0791474712 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780791474723 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0791474720 (pbk. : alk. paper)