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

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

Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964.

Environmental ethics.

Pesticides -- Environmental aspects.

9780791474716 (hardcover : alk. paper)

0791474712 (hardcover : alk. paper)

9780791474723 (pbk. : alk. paper)

0791474720 (pbk. : alk. paper)

SUNY series in environmental philosophy and ethics

ix, 287 p. ; 24 cm.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Lisa H. Sideris and Kathleen Dean Moore -- pt. 1. A legacy of activism and advocacy -- 1. One patriot / Terry Tempest Williams -- 2. Rachel Carson's scientific and ocean legacies / Jane Lubchenco -- 3. Rachel Carson and George J. Wallace : why public environmental scientists should be advocates for nature / Peter C. List -- pt. 2. Ethics on land and at sea -- 4. Rachel Carson's environmental ethics / Philip Cafaro -- 5. Thinking like a mackerel : Rachel Carson's Under the sea-wind as a source for a trans-ecotonal sea ethic / Susan Power Bratton -- 6. The conceptual foundations of Rachel Carson's sea ethic / J. Baird Callicott and Elyssa Back -- 7. Rachel Carson's The sea around us, ocean-centrism, and a nascent ocean ethic / Gary Kroll -- pt. 3. Reflections on gender and science -- 8. The ecological body : Rachel Carson, Silent spring, and breast cancer / Lisa H. Sideris -- 9. Science and spirit : struggles of the early Rachel Carson / Maril Hazlett -- 10. "Silence, miss Carson!" : science, gender, and the reception of Silent spring / Michael Smith -- pt. 4. An ongoing toxic discourse -- 11. After Silent spring : ecological effects of pesticides on public health and on birds and other organisms / David Pimentel -- 12. Contested icons : Rachel Carson and DDT / Steve Maguire -- 13. In her footsteps / Christopher Merrill -- 14. Living downstream of Silent spring / Sandra Steingraber -- pt. 5. A legacy of wonder -- 15. The secular and religious sources of Rachel Carson's sense of wonder / Lisa H. Sideris -- 16. How to value a flower : locating beauty in toxic landscapes / Vera Norwood -- 17. The truth of the barnacles : Rachel Carson and the moral significance of wonder / Kathleen Dean Moore -- Contributors -- Index.

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