Carson's Silent spring: a reader's guide

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).