Living Downstream A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment

Name: Living Downstream A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
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ISBN: 9780375700996

ISBN-10: 0375700994

ISBN-13: 9780375700996

Edition: N/A

Authors: Sandra Steingraber

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With this eloquent and impassioned book, 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 invaluable as Silent Spring--and potentially as historic. In her early twenties, Steingraber was afflicted with cancer, a disease that has afflicted other members of her adoptive family. Writing from the twin perspectives of a survivor and a concerned scientist, she traces the high incidence of cancer and the terrifying concentrations of environmental toxins in her native rural Illinois. She goes on to show similar correlation in other communities, such as Boston and Long Island,…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/28/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Foreword to the Vintage Edition


Prologue


trace amounts


silence


time


space


war


animals


earth


air


water


fire


our bodies, inscribed


ecological roots


Afterword to the Vintage Edition


Epilogue: exercising your right to know


Source Notes


Index