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Author Ley, Barbara L., 1972-

Title From pink to green : disease prevention and the environmental breast cancer movement / Barbara L. Ley.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 252 pages) : illustrations.
Series Critical issues in health and medicine
Critical issues in health and medicine.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note Print version record.
Summary 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.
Subject 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.
Breast -- Tumors -- Etiology -- United States.
Breast -- Tumors -- United States -- History.
Breast -- Tumors -- prevention & control -- United States.
Consumer Participation -- United States -- History.
Environmental Exposure -- United States.
History, 20th Century -- United States.
History, 21st Century -- United States.
Social sciences.
Health.
Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Cancer.
NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Breast -- Cancer. (OCoLC)fst00838260
Breast -- Cancer -- Environmental aspects. (OCoLC)fst00838274
Breast -- Cancer -- Prevention. (OCoLC)fst00838300
Environmentalism. (OCoLC)fst00913543
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-2099
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Ley, Barbara L., 1972- From pink to green. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009 9780813545301 (DLC) 2008040063 (OCoLC)253188862
ISBN 9780813556529 (electronic bk.)
081355652X (electronic bk.)
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