Product Description

Published more than three decades after Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" warned of the impact of chemicals on the environment, this book offers a critique of current thinking on cancer and its causes. It argues that the evidence has been wilfully ignored, and that the environment is still being poisoned. Throughout her study, the author weaves two stories - of Rachel Carson and her battle to be heard and of her own cancer of the bladder, which she traces back to agricultural and industrial contamination.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #771283 in Books
• Published on: 1999-04-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

LITERARY REVIEW
'An inspiration, an alarm, an illustrated guide to your worst nightmare ... excellent ... accessible'

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
'Her writing is clear and concise ... the author's welldocumented account should help to rectify this disturbing and dangerous situation'

About the Author
Sandra Steingraber is a poet and professor of biology. She serves on the US government's National Action Plan on breast cancer.

Customer Reviews

Great book, a must read
This is both an eye-opener and depressing book. Steingraber uses her scientific background and her experience of growing up in small town Iowa to explain how cancer is basically an environmental disease touching everyone. She also talks about her and other friends trials with cancer. It is not a fun disease with the cures sometimes worse than the illness. The examples and stories cited happened (and are happening) across the US and in any industrial country. A great read if you are interested in what is happening around you.