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.