No Family History

The Environmental Links to Breast Cancer

Sabrina McCormick (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

190 Seiten

2010
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7425-6409-1 (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.

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

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.7.2010
• Reihe/Serie: New Social Formations
• Verlagsort: Lanham, MD
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 232 mm
• Gewicht: 295 g
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• ISBN-10: 0-7425-6409-6 / 0742564096
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-6409-1 / 9780742564091
• Zustand: Neuware