Rachel Carson and her sisters: extraordinary women who have shaped America's environment

List of Figures

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Have You Seen the Robins? Rachel Carson's Mother and the Tradition of Women Naturalists

2. Don't Harm the People: Ellen Swallow Richards, Dr. Alice Hamilton, and Their Heirs Take On Polluting Industries

3. Carson and Her Sisters: Rachel Carson Did Not Act Alone

4. Rachel Carson, Terry Tempest Williams, and Ecological Empathy

5. The Environment around Us and inside Us: Ellen Swallow Richards, Silent Spring, and Sandra Steingraber

6. Rachel Carson, Devra Davis, Pollution, and Public Policy

7. Rachel Carson and Theo Colborn: Endocrine Disruption and Ethics

Epilogue

Notes

Index