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Sandra Steingraber

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An internationally recognized authority on environmental links to cancer and reproductive health, Sandra Steingraber, PhD, is the author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment, a new edition of which was just published by Merloyd Lawrence Books/Da Capo Press. It has been adapted into a feature-length documentary film by The People's Picture Company.

In 2001, Steingraber received the Rachel Carson Leadership Award for her “outstanding contributions to the conservation and environmental movement.” A columnist for Orion magazine, she has lectured before the parliament of the European Union, at various medical conferences, and on numerous college campuses, and is a scholar in residence at New York’s Ithaca College.

Please visit www.livingdownstream.com and www.steingraber.com.

Blog Entries by Sandra Steingraber

How My Mother and I Learned to Speak About Cancer

(0) Comments | Posted October 24, 2012 | 1:21 PM

My mother and I recently walked together along a corridor that connects the parking garage to the main elevators of St. Francis Hospital in Peoria, Illinois. It's an ordinary walkway, and yet it holds extraordinary memories for each of us.

My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer at the...

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Cancer: The Public and Private Conversation

(0) Comments | Posted October 3, 2012 | 12:00 AM

Mounting evidence suggests that exposures to chemical contaminants within our shared environment are playing a more significant role than previously appreciated in the burden of human cancer.

Vows of marriage. Oaths of citizenship. A jury's verdict. Words with the power to change our identities are usually spoken in...

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