From Pink to Green

作者:Ley, Barbara L.

页数:256

出版时间:2009-7

价格:$ 81.36

isbn号码:9780813545301

From the early 1980s, the U.S. environmental breast cancer movement has championed the goal of eradicating the disease by emphasizing the importance of reducingaeven eliminatingaexposure to chemicals and toxins. From Pink to Green chronicles the movementas disease prevention philosophy from the beginning.Challenging the broader cultural milieu of pink ribbon symbolism and breast cancer aawarenessa 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 activistsa everyday work revolves around describing how the socalled acancer industrya 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.