Having Faith An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

Name: Having Faith An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood
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ISBN: 9780425189993

ISBN-10: 0425189996

ISBN-13: 9780425189993

Edition: 2003 (Reprint)

Authors: Sandra Steingraber

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As an ecologist, Sandra Steingraber spent her professional life observing how living things interact with their environments. Now, 38 and pregnant, she had become a habitat-for a population of one. Having Faithis Steingraber's exploration of the intimate ecology of motherhood. Using her scientist's eye to study the biological drama of new life being knit from the molecules of air, food, and water flowing into her body, she looks at the environmental hazards that now threaten pregnant and breastfeeding women, and examines the effects these toxins can have on a child. Having Faithmakes the metamorphosis of a few cells into a baby astonishingly vivid, and the dangers to human reproduction…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/6/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.98" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Preface






Old Moon



Hunger Moon



Sap Moon



Egg Moon



Mother's Moon



Rose Moon



Hay Moon



Green Corn Moon



Harvest Moon






Mamma



Loaves and Fishes



The View from the Top


Afterword


Source Notes


Acknowledgments


Further Resources


Index


About the Author