From pink to green disease prevention and the environmental breast cancer movement / Barbara L. Ley.
Material type: TextSeries: Critical issues in health and medicinePublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [(c)2009.]Description: 1 online resource (x, 252 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813556529
- 081355652X
- 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 -- United States -- History
- Breast Neoplasms -- etiology -- United States
- Breast Neoplasms -- prevention & control -- United States
- Consumer Participation -- United States -- History
- Environmental Exposure -- United States
- History, 20th Century -- United States
- History, 21st Century -- United States
- Breast -- Cancer -- Environmental aspects
- Breast -- Cancer -- Prevention
- Breast -- Cancer -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Breast -- Cancer -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Breast Neoplasms -- etiology -- United States
- Breast Neoplasms -- United States -- History
- Breast Neoplasms -- prevention & control -- United States
- Consumer Participation -- United States -- History
- Environmental Exposure -- United States
- Environmentalism -- United States
- History, 20th Century -- United States
- History, 21st Century -- United States
- Social Science
- Health
- Medicine
- RC280.8
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Online Book | G. Allen Fleece Library Online | Non-fiction | RC280.8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available | ocn593295664 |
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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 define the "American way of life"in the early twentieth century, promised infinite supplies of copper and other natural resources. LeCain deftly analyzes how open-pit mining continues to adversely effect the environment and how, as the world begins to rival American resource consump.
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