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In six pages this paper analyzes Sandra Steingraber’s text Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment. Specifically considered are the book’s main points, its policy implications and how the information can be used, its description of the intersection between the environment and health, and how the text makes the writer feel on personal and professional levels. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography. TGlivedown.rtf
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several illustrious universities (and is currently Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Ithaca College), served on President Bill Clintons National Action Plan for Breast Cancer, and the author of the text Living
Downstream: A Scientists Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment. This book is part autobiography and part educational treatise on the links that exist between the environment and the
high incidences of cancer that have been diagnosed since the end of the Second World War. Dr. Steingraber is effectively able to connect these two components because she believes
the bladder cancer diagnosis she received while a college student is attributed to the pollutants in the Illinois industrial area in which she was raised. To reinforce this linkage,
Dr. Steingraber (1998) observes, "I was born in 1959 and so share a birth date with atrazine, which was first registered for use that year - the same year that
DDT reached its peak usage in the US. The 1950s were also banner years for the manufacture of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), the oily fluids used in electrical transformers, pesticides,
carbonless copy paper, and small electronic parts. DDT was outlawed the year I turned 13 and PCBs a few years later. Both have been linked to cancer" (p.
6). This began, for Dr. Steingraber, a lifelong crusade to educate herself and others about environmental hazards and the potential fatal effects they can have on all forms of
life. Major Points of the Text A major concern of Dr. Steingrabers is that the primary focus of contemporary cancer research is that the disease is genetically transmitted. Although
BRCA-1 has been identified as the breast cancer gene, Dr. Steingraber notes that this represents about 10 percent of all cancers. She also explains that in the passage of
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