Living Downstream A Scientist S Personal Investigation Of Cancer And The Environment
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Living Downstream
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Author : Sandra Steingraber
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-03-23
Living Downstream written by Sandra Steingraber and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-23 with Science categories.
Sandra Steingraber, biologist, poet, and survivor of cancer in her twenties, brings all three perspectives to bear on the most important health and human rights issue of our time: the growing body of evidence linking cancer to environmental contaminations. Her scrupulously researched scientific analysis ranges from the alarming worldwide patterns of cancer incidence to the sabotage wrought by cancer-promoting substances on the intricate workings of human cells. In a gripping personal narrative, she travels from hospital waiting rooms to hazardous waste sites and from farmhouse kitchens to incinerator hearings, bringing to life stories of communities in her hometown and around the country as they confront decades of industrial and agricultural recklessness. Living Downstream is the first book to bring together toxics-release data -- now finally made available through under the right-to-know laws -- and newly released cancer registry data. Sandra Steingraber is also the first to trace with such compelling precision the entire web of connections between our bodies and the ecological world in which we eat, drink, breathe, and work. Her book strikes a hopeful note throughout, for, while we can do little to alter our genetic inheritance, we can do a great deal to eliminate the environmental contributions to cancer, and she shows us where to begin. Living Downstream is for all readers who care about the health of their families and future generations. Sandra Steingraber's brave, clear, and careful voice is certain to break the paralyzing silence on this subject that persists more than three decades after Rachel Carson's great early warning.
Living Downstream
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Author : Sandra Steingraber
language : en
Publisher: Virago Press
Release Date : 1999
Living Downstream written by Sandra Steingraber and has been published by Virago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Cancer categories.
Published more than three decades after Rachel Carson's Silent Spring warned of the impact of chemicals on the environment, this book offers a critique of current thinking on cancer and its causes. It argues that the evidence has been wilfully ignored, and that the environment is still being poisoned. Throughout her study, the author weaves two stories - of Rachel Carson and her battle to be heard and of her own cancer of the bladder, which she traces back to agricultural and industrial contamination.
Living Downstream A Scientist S Personal Investigation Of Cancer And The Environment
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Author : S. Steingraber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Living Downstream A Scientist S Personal Investigation Of Cancer And The Environment written by S. Steingraber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with categories.
Living Downstream
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Author : Sandra Steingraber
language : en
Publisher: Virago Press
Release Date : 1998
Living Downstream written by Sandra Steingraber and has been published by Virago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Cancer categories.
Thirty-five years after Rachel Carson s Silent Spring warned of the impact of chemicals on the environment, Steingraber offers us an urgent critique of current thinking on cancer and its causes, bringing us the alarming message that we have wilfully ignored the evidence and are still poisoning our environment. Throughout her study of truly shocking scientific research she weaves two stories - of Rachel Carson and her battle to be heard and of her own moving story of cancer of the bladder, which she traces back to agricultural and industrial contamination. The connection between our bodies and the ecological world in which we eat, drink, breathe and work have rarely been so eloquently and passionately recorded.
Living Downstream
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Author : Sandra Steingraber
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1998
Living Downstream written by Sandra Steingraber and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Cancer categories.
Biologist and poet Sandra Steingraber shoulders the legacy of Rachel Carson, producing a work about people and land, cancer and the environment, that is as accessible and as invaluable as "Silent Spring". "An important, deeply felt book".--"Chicago Tribune".
Raising Elijah
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Author : Sandra Steingraber
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date : 2011-03-29
Raising Elijah written by Sandra Steingraber and has been published by Da Capo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-29 with Nature categories.
Nothing could be more important than the health of our children, and no one is better suited to examine the threats against it than Sandra Steingraber. Once called "a poet with a knife," she blends precise science with lyrical memoir. In Living Downstream she spoke as a biologist and cancer survivor; in Having Faith she spoke as an ecologist and expectant mother, viewing her own body as a habitat. Now she speaks as the scientist mother of two young children, enjoying and celebrating their lives while searching for ways to protect them -- and all children -- from the toxic, climate-threatened world they inhabit Each chapter of this engaging and unique book focuses on one inevitable ingredient of childhood -- everything from pizza to laundry to homework to the "Big Talk" -- and explores the underlying social, political, and ecological forces behind it. Through these everyday moments, Steingraber demonstrates how closely the private, intimate world of parenting connects to the public world of policy-making and how the ongoing environmental crisis is, fundamentally, a crisis of family life.
Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk
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Author : Suzanne H. Reuben
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 2010-10
Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk written by Suzanne H. Reuben and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10 with Health & Fitness categories.
Though overall cancer incidence and mortality have continued to decline in recent years, cancer continues to devastate the lives of far too many Americans. In 2009 alone, 1.5 million American men, women, and children were diagnosed with cancer, and 562,000 died from the disease. There is a growing body of evidence linking environmental exposures to cancer. The Pres. Cancer Panel dedicated its 2008¿2009 activities to examining the impact of environmental factors on cancer risk. The Panel considered industrial, occupational, and agricultural exposures as well as exposures related to medical practice, military activities, modern lifestyles, and natural sources. This report presents the Panel¿s recommend. to mitigate or eliminate these barriers. Illus.
Bodily Natures
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Author : Stacy Alaimo
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2010-10-25
Bodily Natures written by Stacy Alaimo and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-25 with Philosophy categories.
How do we understand the agency and significance of material forces and their interface with human bodies? What does it mean to be human in these times, with bodies that are inextricably interconnected with our physical world? Bodily Natures considers these questions by grappling with powerful and pervasive material forces and their increasingly harmful effects on the human body. Drawing on feminist theory, environmental studies, and the sciences, Stacy Alaimo focuses on trans-corporeality, or movement across bodies and nature, which has profoundly altered our sense of self. By looking at a broad range of creative and philosophical writings, Alaimo illuminates how science, politics, and culture collide, while considering the closeness of the human body to the environment.
Rachel Carson And Her Sisters
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Author : Robert K Musil
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2014-04-01
Rachel Carson And Her Sisters written by Robert K Musil and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Robert K. Musil redefines the achievements and legacy of environmental pioneer and scientist Rachel Carson, linking her work to a wide network of American women activists and writers and introducing her to a new, contemporary audience.Rachel Carson was the first American to combine two longstanding, but separate strands of American environmentalism—the love of nature and a concern for human health. Widely known for her 1962 best-seller, Silent Spring, Carson is today often perceived as a solitary “great woman,” whose work single-handedly launched a modern environmental movement. But as Musil demonstrates, Carson’s life’s work drew upon and was supported by already existing movements, many led by women, in conservation and public health. On the fiftieth anniversary of her death, this book helps underscore Carson’s enduring environmental legacy and brings to life the achievements of women writers and advocates, such as Ellen Swallow Richards, Dr. Alice Hamilton, Terry Tempest Williams, Sandra Steingraber, Devra Davis, and Theo Colborn, all of whom overcame obstacles to build and lead the modern American environmental movement.
The Death Of Nature
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Author : Carolyn Merchant
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2019-09-10
The Death Of Nature written by Carolyn Merchant and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-10 with Social Science categories.
UPDATED 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH 2020 PREFACE An examination of the Scientific Revolution that shows how the mechanistic world view of modern science has sanctioned the exploitation of nature, unrestrained commercial expansion, and a new socioeconomic order that subordinates women.
