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Subject(s)

• Environmentalism—United States [Browse]
• Breast—Cancer—Prevention [Browse]
• Breast—Cancer—Environmental aspects [Browse]
• Breast—Cancer—United States—History—21st century [Browse]
• Breast—Cancer—United States—History—20th century [Browse]

Series

• Critical issues in health and medicine. [More in this series]
• Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Summary note

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.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

Language note

English

Contents

• 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

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ISBN

0-8135-5652-X

OCLC

• 787843313
• 593295664

Doi

• 10.36019/9780813556529

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