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From Pink to Green
Price: $24.95
Subtitle:
Disease Prevention
and the Environmental Breast Cancer Movement
Author:
Barbara L Ley
Subject: Health,
Women's
Studies, Sociology
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4531-8
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4530-1
Pages: 265 pages, 5
illustrations
Publication Date: July 2009
Series:
Critical
Issues in Health and Medicine
Praise for From Pink to Green
“In her provocative
exploration of the ever-changing terrain of breast cancer groups,
Barbara Ley reveals how activism and science interact to shape our
beliefs about breast cancer and its causes. This is a book to challenge
the beliefs of all its readers, whether they are pink or green,
scientist or activist, policy wonk or general reader.”—Sharon Batt, author
of Patient No More: The Politics of
Breast Cancer
"Seeking prevention
by reducing toxic exposures, environmental breast cancer advocates
promote strategic "greening," strategic science, and strategic
regulations. Ley tells a riveting story on how links to broader
environmental efforts nourish and help sustain multiple health
movements." —Adele E. Clarke,
University of California San Francisco, co-editor of Biomedicalization: Technoscience and
Transformations of Health and Illness in the U.S.
"A probing, honest,
eye-opening account of society’s mixed messages about breasts and the
environment, written by one of the most talented social scientists of
her generation. Barbara Ley exposes the flawed, but human faces
of scientists, breast cancer activists, and the social and political
context that shape their lives." —Devra L. Davis,
founder and director of the Devra Lee Davis Charitable Foundation and
the author of The Secret History of
the War on Cancer
Description:
From the early 1980s,
the U.S. environmental breast cancer movement has championed the goal
of eradicating the disease by emphasizing the importance of
reducing—even eliminating—exposure to chemicals and toxins. From Pink to Green chronicles the
movement’s disease prevention philosophy from the beginning.
Challenging the broader cultural milieu of pink ribbon symbolism and
breast cancer
“awareness” campaigns, this movement has grown from a handful of
community-based organizations into a national entity, shaping the
cultural, political, and public health landscape. Much of the
activists’ everyday work revolves around describing how the socalled
“cancer industry” downplays possible environmental links to protect
their political and economic interests and they demand that the public
play a role in scientific, policy, and public health decision-making to
build a new framework of breast cancer prevention.
From Pink to
Green successfully explores the intersection between breast
cancer activism and the environmental health sciences, incorporating
public and scientific debates as well as policy implications to public
health and environmental agendas.
About the Author:
Barbara L. Ley is an assistant professor in the
department of journalism and mass communication at the University of
Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
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