Showing posts with label Living Downstream. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Living Downstream. Show all posts

Monday, September 5, 2011

An Ecologist's Struggle with Cancer

In university I read a book called "Living Downstream," told by an ecologist and cancer survivor about the connections between environmental toxins and health. In beautiful prose, author Sandra Steingraber blends two narratives: the personal Sandra, dealing with the cancer and the scientist Sandra, putting the pieces together
and discussing how carcinogens (cancer causing agents) work.

Blogger - Ashley Ashbee

Blogger - Ashley Ashbee