Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
by Sandra Steingraber
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The cancer survivor explores the correlation between her own family's illnesses and the environmental conditions surrounding their rural Illinois home.Tags
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lemontwist Silent Spring is referenced many times in this book, and I'm glad I had already read it, as it gave me a good perspective while reading Living Downstream.
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Depressing, both for me as a doctor as as the mother of a daughter - makes you want to move off the grid somewhere, except that those at the poles have some of the worst conditions - very compelling combination of personal story and research, clearly with a position but with a broad and well-researched approach
A good combination of scientific fact with personal experience.
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Written in beautifully spare, almost lapidary prose.... [An] important, deeply felt book.
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Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. received her doctorate in biological sciences from the University of Michigan and taught biology for several years at Columbia College, Chicago. The recipient of several awards for science writing, Steingraber was named a Ms. Magazine "Woman of the Year" in 1997. Recently, as part of international treaty negotiations, she show more briefed United Nations delegates in Geneva on breast milk contamination. She has been selected as the 2001 recipient of the Rachel Carson Leadership Award from Carson's alma mater, Chatham College. Currently on the faculty at Cornell University, she lives in Ithaca, New York, with her husband, the sculptor Jeff de Castro, and their daughter, Faith show less
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- Original publication date
- 1997
- People/Characters
- Rachel Carson
- Important places
- Illinois, USA
- Epigraph
- There was once a village along a river. The people who lived there were very kind. These residents, according to parable, began noticing increasing numbers of drowning people caught in the river's swift current. And so the... (show all)y went to work devising ever more elaborate technologies to resuscitate them. So preoccupied were these heroic villagers with rescue and treatment that they never thought to look upstream to see who was pushing the victims in.
This book is a walk up that river. - Dedication
- For Jeannie Marshall
And for Rita Arditi
And for my mother,
Whose original plan was to build
A laboratory in the north bedroom - First words
- Thirty years ago, in between my sophomore and junior years of college, I was diagnosed with bladder cancer.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It must also involve an examination of the full range of alternatives, including no action.
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 616.994071
- Canonical LCC
- RC268.25
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- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
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