From pink to green
Subtitle: disease prevention and the environmental breast cancer movement
By: Barbara L. Ley.
Series: Critical issues in health and medicine
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780813545301; 9780813545318
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 -- United States; Breast Neoplasms -- etiology -- United States; Breast Neoplasms -- prevention & control -- United States; Consumer Participation -- history -- United States; Environmental Exposure -- United States; History, 20th Century -- United States; History, 21st Century -- United States
Description: The breast cancer movement has emphasized the importance of reducing or eliminating exposure to chemicals and toxins. The movement's disease prevention philosophy is chronicled from the beginning.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A movement in the making; title: "End the silence"; title: From touring the streets to taking on science; title: "We should not have to be the bodies of evidence"; title: The cultural politics of sisterhood; title: Toxic tours move indoors; title: Beyond women's health; title: Still in the making.