No Family History (eBook)

The Environmental Links to Breast Cancer

Sabrina McCormick (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2009
192 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7425-6628-6 (ISBN)

Infos

No Family History presents compelling evidence of environmental links to breast cancer, ranging from everyday cosmetics to industrial waste. Sabrina McCormick weaves the story of one survivor with no family history into a powerful exploration of the big business of breast cancer. As drugs, pink products, and corporate sponsorships generate enormous revenue to find a cure, a growing number of experts argue that we should instead increase focus on prevention-reducing environmental exposures that have contributed to the sharp increase of breast cancer rates. But the dollars continue to pour into the search for a cure, and the companies that profit, including some pharmaceutical and cosmetics companies, may in fact contribute to the environmental causes of breast cancer. No Family History shows how profits drive our public focus on the cure rather than prevention, and suggests new ways to reduce breast cancer rates in the future.

Autor

Sabrina McCormick is a Science and Technology Policy Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of the Sciences working in the Environmental Protection Agency. She is also research faculty at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. She was previously a Robert Wood Johnson fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, and she is the director and producer of the award-winning documentary No Family History. Her website is www.nofamilyhistory.org.

Inhalt

IntroductionSection IChapter 1: What We Do About Breast CancerChapter 2: How We Got ThereChapter 3: Where We Might GoSection IIChapter 4: The New Breast Cancer ConcernChapter 5: Fresh EvidenceChapter 6: Under the SkinSection IIIChapter 7: The Way OutAppendix: Resource ListReferencesIndexAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.7.2009
• Reihe/Serie: New Social Formations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Environmental Studies • Women's history
• ISBN-10: 0-7425-6628-5 / 0742566285
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-6628-6 / 9780742566286