From Pink to Green

Disease Prevention and the Environmental Breast Cancer Movement

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19895071
AutoresBarbara L Ley (0000-0002-6328-8270, autor correspondente), Barbara Ley
Ano2020
Páginas252
Data de publicação2020-12-31
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoFrom Pink to Green (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraRutgers University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.36019/9780813556529
OpenAlexW625510516
Open LibraryOL37394192M
ISBN9780813556529
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas18

From the early 1980s, 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

Breast cancer · Cancer · Disease · Environmental ethics · Environmental movement · Pathology · Political science · Politics · Public health · Public opinion · Public relations · Sociology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Law · Medicine · Breast · Environmental aspects · Environmentalism · History · Prevention