No Family History

The Environmental Links to Breast Cancer

Sabrina McCormick (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2009
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7425-6408-4 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Introduction
Section I
Chapter 1: What We Do About Breast Cancer
Chapter 2: How We Got There
Chapter 3: Where We Might Go
Section II
Chapter 4: The New Breast Cancer Concern
Chapter 5: Fresh Evidence
Chapter 6: Under the Skin
Section III
Chapter 7: The Way Out
Appendix: Resource List
References
Index
About the Author

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.8.2009
Reihe/Serie	New Social Formations
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 239 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-7425-6408-8 / 0742564088
ISBN-13	978-0-7425-6408-4 / 9780742564084
Zustand	Neuware