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Living Downstream

An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment

By: Sandra Steingraber

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Living Downstream

An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment

By: Sandra Steingraber

Sandra Steingraber, biologist, poet, and survivor of cancer in her twenties, brings all three perspectives to bear on the most important health and human rights issue of our time: the growing body of evidence linking cancer to environmental contaminations. Her scrupulously researched scientific analysis ranges from the alarming worldwide patterns of cancer incidence to the sabotage wrought by cancer-promoting substances on the intricate workings of human cells. In a gripping personal narrative, she travels from hospital waiting rooms to hazardous waste sites and from farmhouse kitchens to incinerator hearings, bringing to life stories of communities in her hometown and around the country as they confront decades of industrial and agricultural recklessness. Living Downstream is the first book to bring together toxics-release data -- now finally made available through under the right-to-know laws -- and newly released cancer registry data. Sandra Steingraber is also the first to trace with such compelling precision the entire web of connections between our bodies and the ecological world in which we eat, drink, breathe, and work. Her book strikes a hopeful note throughout, for, while we can do little to alter our genetic inheritance, we can do a great deal to eliminate the environmental contributions to cancer, and she shows us where to begin. Living Downstream is for all readers who care about the health of their families and future generations. Sandra Steingraber's brave, clear, and careful voice is certain to break the paralyzing silence on this subject that persists more than three decades after Rachel Carson's great early warning.

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Da Capo Press

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0306818973

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9780306818974

Having Faith

An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

By: Sandra Steingraber

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Having Faith

An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

By: Sandra Steingraber

A brilliant writer, first-time mother, and respected biologist, Sandra Steingraber tells the month-by-month story of her own pregnancy, weaving in the new knowledge of embryology, the intricate development of organs, the emerging architecture of the brain, and the transformation of the mother's body to nourish and protect the new life. At the same time, she shows all the hazards that we are now allowing to threaten each precious stage of development, including the breast-feeding relationship between mothers and their newborns. In the eyes of an ecologist, the mother's body is the first environment, the mediator between the toxins in our food, water, and air and her unborn child.Never before has the metamorphosis of a few cells into a baby seemed so astonishingly vivid, and never before has the threat of environmental pollution to conception, pregnancy, and even to the safety of breast milk been revealed with such clarity and urgency. In Having Faith, poetry and science combine in a passionate call to action.A Merloyd Lawrence Book

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Hachette+ORM

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0738216623

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9780738216621

Raising Elijah

Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis

By: Sandra Steingraber

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Raising Elijah

Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis

By: Sandra Steingraber

Nothing could be more important than the health of our children, and no one is better suited to examine the threats against it than Sandra Steingraber. Once called "a poet with a knife," she blends precise science with lyrical memoir. In Living Downstream she spoke as a biologist and cancer survivor; in Having Faith she spoke as an ecologist and expectant mother, viewing her own body as a habitat. Now she speaks as the scientist mother of two young children, enjoying and celebrating their lives while searching for ways to protect them -- and all children -- from the toxic, climate-threatened world they inhabit Each chapter of this engaging and unique book focuses on one inevitable ingredient of childhood -- everything from pizza to laundry to homework to the "Big Talk" -- and explores the underlying social, political, and ecological forces behind it. Through these everyday moments, Steingraber demonstrates how closely the private, intimate world of parenting connects to the public world of policy-making and how the ongoing environmental crisis is, fundamentally, a crisis of family life.

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Da Capo Press

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0306819783

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9780306819780

Living Downstream

An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment

By: Sandra Steingraber

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Living Downstream

An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment

By: Sandra Steingraber

Thirty-five years after Rachel Carson s Silent Spring warned of the impact of chemicals on the environment, Steingraber offers us an urgent critique of current thinking on cancer and its causes, bringing us the alarming message that we have wilfully ignored the evidence and are still poisoning our environment. Throughout her study of truly shocking scientific research she weaves two stories - of Rachel Carson and her battle to be heard and of her own moving story of cancer of the bladder, which she traces back to agricultural and industrial contamination. The connection between our bodies and the ecological world in which we eat, drink, breathe and work have rarely been so eloquently and passionately recorded.

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Virago Press

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1860494692

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9781860494697

Raising Elijah

Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis

By: Sandra Steingraber

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Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis

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Having Faith

An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

By: Sandra Steingraber

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An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

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Living Downstream

An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment

By: Sandra Steingraber

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An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment

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Objectivity & Diversity

Another Logic of Scientific Research

By: Sandra Harding

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Objectivity & Diversity

Another Logic of Scientific Research

By: Sandra Harding

Worries about scientific objectivity seem never-ending. Social critics and philosophers of science have argued that invocations of objectivity are often little more than attempts to boost the status of a claim, while calls for value neutrality may be used to suppress otherwise valid dissenting positions. Objectivity is used sometimes to advance democratic agendas, at other times to block them; sometimes for increasing the growth of knowledge, at others to resist it. Sandra Harding is not ready to throw out objectivity quite yet. For all of its problems, she contends that objectivity is too powerful a concept simply to abandon. In Objectivity and Diversity, Harding calls for a science that is both more epistemically adequate and socially just, a science that would ask: How are the lives of the most economically and politically vulnerable groups affected by a particular piece of research? Do they have a say in whether and how the research is done? Should empirically reliable systems of indigenous knowledge count as "real science"? Ultimately, Harding argues for a shift from the ideal of a neutral, disinterested science to one that prizes fairness and responsibility.

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University of Chicago Press

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022624153X

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9780226241531

Science and Social Inequality

Feminist and Postcolonial Issues

By: Sandra Harding

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Science and Social Inequality

Feminist and Postcolonial Issues

By: Sandra Harding

In Science and Social Inequality, Sandra Harding makes the provocative argument that the philosophy and practices of today's Western science, contrary to its Enlightenment mission, work to insure that more science will only worsen existing gaps between the best and worst off around the world. She defends this claim by exposing the ways that hierarchical social formations in modern Western sciences encode antidemocratic principles and practices, particularly in terms of their services to militarism, the impoverishment and alienation of labor, Western expansion, and environmental destruction. The essays in this collection--drawing on feminist, multicultural, and postcolonial studies--propose ways to reconceptualize the sciences in the global social order. At issue here are not only social justice and environmental issues but also the accuracy and comprehensiveness of our understandings of natural and social worlds. The inadvertent complicity of the sciences with antidemocratic projects obscures natural and social realities and thus blocks the growth of scientific knowledge. Scientists, policy makers, social justice movements and the consumers of scientific products (that is, the rest of us) can work together and separately to improve this situation.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252047095

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9780252047091

Institutional Change in the Horn of Africa

The Allocation of Property Rights and Implications for Development

By: Sandra F. Joireman

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Institutional Change in the Horn of Africa

The Allocation of Property Rights and Implications for Development

By: Sandra F. Joireman

Traditional theories of property rights change have posited an evolutionary progression of property rights towards private property in response to changes in the relative price ratio of land compared to the other factors of production. Using case studies from two areas of Ethiopia and one area of Eritrea the dissertation demonstrates the role of political factors such as interest group preference and state intervention in directing property rights development away from a linear path. The case studies trace the development of three separate systems of property rights throughout the twentieth century up to the Ethiopian revolution of 1974. Analysis of history and litigation in the three areas demonstrates that in none did property rights evolve spontaneously towards privatization. In one area of the study relative price changes did not lead to changes in the system of property rights as the theory predicts. In the other two areas, changes in property rights followed a change in the relative price of land, but these changes were brought about exogenously, by the intervention of the government or interest groups in guiding property rights in a particular direction. There are two theoretical conclusions to the study 1) property rights development does not always occur when we expect it to, other factors such as vested interests and government reluctance can intervene with their development and 2) even if property rights do change in response to relative price changes, they may not always move towards privatization or greater specification. In addition, one interesting empirical result of the research was that in communal systems of land tenure the transaction costs of land transfer are higher, leading to a drag on economic efficiency in the overall economy of the region. Generally, the incorporation of political factors into the model of changing property rights leads to a less parsimonious, but more accurate description of the progression of land rights in developing countries in particular.

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Universal-Publishers

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1581120001

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Sciences from Below

Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities

By: Sandra Harding

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Sciences from Below

Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities

By: Sandra Harding

A preeminent science studies scholar shows how feminist and postcolonial science studies challenge the problematic modernity versus tradition binary.

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Duke University Press

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0822342820

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9780822342823

Living Downstream

In the Community ; a Guide for Using the Film as a Catalyst for Change

By: Chanda Chevannes,Sandra Steingraber,People's Picture Company, Inc

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Living Downstream

In the Community ; a Guide for Using the Film as a Catalyst for Change

By: Chanda Chevannes,Sandra Steingraber,People's Picture Company, Inc

All across North America, people are using the film Living Downstream to create change in their communities. And you can too. Use the ideas in this guide to raise awareness about the links between toxic chemicals and cancer incidence, to encourage public involvement in prevention of environmental contamination, and to brainstorm ways to take action to improve your community's environmental health. A supplement to the Living Downstream Educational DVD, this guide supports the creative use of the film by organizations, community groups, activists, and other professionals. Its contents have been designed for easy customization according to your group's mandate, goals, and expertise. The tools within will help you encourage others to think differently about environmental health. They will help you move people beyond questions about preventing personal exposures to realizing that true prevention requires public efforts to stop the manufacture of toxic chemicals"--P. xiii.

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0986761613

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9780986761614

Living Downstream

In the Classroom : an Interdisciplinary Guide for University, College and High School Educators

By: Chanda Chevannes,Sandra Steingraber,People's Picture Company, Inc

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Living Downstream

In the Classroom : an Interdisciplinary Guide for University, College and High School Educators

By: Chanda Chevannes,Sandra Steingraber,People's Picture Company, Inc

This guide has been designed specifically for use with the Living Downstream Educational DVD. It provides lesson planning resources and instructional tools for deepening students' educational experiences"--P.1.

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0986761621

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Book's by Sandra Steingraber

Living Downstream

Living Downstream

Having Faith

Having Faith

Raising Elijah

Raising Elijah

Living Downstream

Living Downstream

Raising Elijah

Raising Elijah

Having Faith

Having Faith

Living Downstream

Living Downstream

Objectivity & Diversity

Objectivity & Diversity

Science and Social Inequality

Science and Social Inequality

Institutional Change in the Horn of Africa

Institutional Change in the Horn of Africa

Sciences from Below

Sciences from Below

Living Downstream

Living Downstream

Living Downstream

Living Downstream

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