From pink to green : disease prevention and the environmental breast cancer movement

From pink to green : disease prevention and the environmental breast cancer movement /

Mass Destruction is the compelling story of Daniel Jackling and the development of open-pit hard rock mining, its role in the wiring of an electrified America, and its devastating environmental effects. This new method of mining, complimenting the mass production and mass consumption that came to de...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ley, Barbara L., 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009.
Series:Critical issues in health and medicine.
Subjects:
Breast > Cancer > United States > History > 20th century.
Breast > Cancer > United States > History > 21st century.
Breast > Cancer > Environmental aspects.
Breast > Cancer > Prevention.
Environmentalism > United States.
Breast Neoplasms > history
Breast Neoplasms > etiology
Breast Neoplasms > prevention & control
Community Participation > history.
Environmental Exposure
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
United States
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • A movement in the making
  • "End the silence" : uncertainty work and the politics of the cancer industry
  • From touring the streets to taking on science
  • "We should not have to be the bodies of evidence" : the precautionary principle in policy, science, and daily life
  • The cultural politics of sisterhood
  • Toxic tours move indoors : race, class, and breast cancer prevention
  • Beyond breast cancer, beyond women's health
  • Still in the making.

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