Carson's Silent Spring : a Reader's Guide.
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 S...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2014.
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| Series: | Reader's Guides.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (233 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441132826 1441132821 9781474210515 1474210511 9781441128997 1441128999 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781474210515 |