1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790286103321

Autore

Ley Barbara L.

Titolo

From Pink to Green : Disease Prevention and the Environmental Breast Cancer Movement / / Barbara L. Ley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

0-8135-5652-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Collana

Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Disciplina

362.196/99449

362.19699449

Soggetti

Environmentalism - United States

Breast - Cancer - Prevention

Breast - Cancer - Environmental aspects

Breast - Cancer - United States - History - 21st century

Breast - Cancer - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. A Movement in the Making -- Chapter 2. “End the Silence”: Uncertainty Work and the Politics of the Cancer Industry -- Chapter 3. From Touring the Streets to Taking On Science -- Chapter 4. “We Should Not Have to Be the Bodies of Evidence”: The Precautionary Principle in Policy, Science, and Daily Life -- Chapter 5. The Cultural Politics of Sisterhood -- Chapter 6. Toxic Tours Move Indoors: Race, Class, and Breast Cancer Prevention -- Chapter 7. Beyond Breast Cancer, Beyond Women’s Health -- Chapter 8. Still in the Making -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

From the early 1980's, 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 so called "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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910820088703321

Autore

Gavelis Ričardas

Titolo

Vilnius poker / / Ricardas Gavelis ; translated from the Lithuanian by Elizabeth Novickas ; N. J. Furl, design

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rochester, New York : , : Open Letter, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-934824-55-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (497 p.)

Disciplina

891.921308

Soggetti

Libraries - Lithuania

Man-woman relationships - Lithuania

Lithuania Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Copyright; Part One: They; Part Two: From the Mlog; Part Three: Tuteisa; Part Four: Vox Canina; About the Author; About the Translator; About the Publisher

Sommario/riassunto

The ""turning point in Lithuanian literature,"" Vilnius Poker is the best Lithuanian Zombie novel ever. (According to Green Apple Books.)