No More Breast Cancer Campaign leaflet
No More Breast Cancer Campaign leaflet 2007No More Breast Cancer Campaign reports
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Recommended book list - last revised 20/6/07
Watch this website for the forthcoming No More Breast Cancer Campaign library of scientific reference papers.
This book list is far from comprehensive and is intended to be a selection of key texts only.
Salter Green, Elizabeth & Ashton, Karen, The toxic consumer –
how to reduce your exposure to everyday toxic chemicals, Impact Publishing
Limited 2006 www.chemtrust.org.uk
(new forthcoming website)
King, Samantha, Pink ribbons inc.: breast cancer and the politics of philanthropy,
University of Minnesota Press 2006
Plant, Jane, Your life in your hands – understanding, preventing
and overcoming breast cancer, Virgin Books Limited 2006 (first published
2000) www.janeplant.com
Woollams, Chris, Oestrogen – the killer in our midst: how to combat
the biggest health threat today, Health Issues Limited 2004 www.canceractive.com
Nocolopoulou-Stamati P, Hens L, Howard C V, Van Larebeke N, Cancer as
an environmental disease, Kluwer Academic Publishers 2004
Jacobs, Miriam & Dinham, Barbara (Eds), Silent invaders – pesticides,
livelihoods and women’s health, Zed Books 2003
Steingraber, Sandra, Having faith – an ecologist’s journey
to motherhood, The Perseus Press 2001 www.steingraber.com
Sherman, Janette D, Life’s delicate balance – causes and prevention
of breast cancer, Taylor & Francis, 2000
Steingraber, Sandra, Living downstream – an ecologist looks at cancer
and the environment, Virago 1998 (first published 1997) www.steingraber.com
Colborn, Theo, Dumanoski Dianne & Myers, John Peterson , Our stolen
future – are we threatening our fertility, intelligence and survival?
a scientific detective story, Abacus 1997 (first published 1996) www.ourstolenfuture.org
Carson, Rachel, Silent spring, Penguin 1965 (first published 1962)
Recommended reports
Royal Society for Environmental Pollution, ‘Crop spraying and the health
of residents and bystanders’ 2006 www.rcep.org.uk
(see Recent studies)
Royal Society for Environmental Pollution, ‘Chemicals in products –
safeguarding the environment and human health’ 2003 www.rcep.org.uk
(see Recent studies)
The Royal Society, Endocine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), 2000, www.royalsoc.ac.uk
(see Policy statements and reports)
Speeches and presentations
No More Breast Cancer Campaign Rachel Carson Centenary Event presentations,
18th May 2007 (forthcoming)
No More Breast Cancer Campaign
presentation at Association for
Research and Treatments Against Cancer (ARTAC) Conference, Paris, 9th
November 2006