Sharon Batt is one of the original founders of Breast Cancer Action Montreal. Sharon looks at the breast cancer industry to explore why so little progress has been made in our understanding and treatment of cancer.

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Pink Ribbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women's Health
by Gayle Sulik

Pink ribbon paraphernalia saturate shopping malls, billboards, magazines, television, and other venues, all in the name of breast cancer awareness. In this compelling and provocative work, Gayle Sulik shows that though this "pink ribbon culture" has brought breast cancer advocacy much attention, it has not had the desired effect of improving women's health. It may, in fact, have done the opposite. Based on eight years of research, analysis of advertisements and breast cancer awareness campaigns, and hundreds of interviews with those affected by the disease, Pink Ribbon Blues highlights the hidden costs of the pink ribbon as an industry, one in which breast cancer has become merely a brand name with a pink logo.

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In Pink Ribbons, Inc., Samantha King traces how breast cancer has been transformed from a stigmatized disease and individual tragedy to a market-driven industry of survivorship. Here, for the first time, King questions the effectiveness and legitimacy of privately funded efforts to stop the epidemic among American women. Highly revelatory-at times shocking-Pink Ribbons, Inc. challenges the commercialization of the breast cancer movement.

Samantha King is associate professor of physical and health education and women’s studies at Queen’s University, in Kingston, Ontario

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In Foods That Fight Cancer, leading biochemist Richard Béliveau teams up with Denis Gingras to describe the science of food and which properties of particular foods are the active cancer-fighting elements.

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Breast Cancer: Poisons, Profits and Preventions
by Liane Clorfene-Casten

The war on cancer, according to investigative reporter and community activist Liane Clorfene-Casten, seems to be a losing battle — badly waged and severely mismanaged. Tracking how companies create the very toxins that cause cancer and then profit from the "cures" they peddle, Clorfene-Casten takes to task the government, the American Cancer Society, and various corporate giants to craft a chilling report on the big business that breast cancer has become. (Amazon.com )

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Theo Colburn identifies the various ways in which chemical pollutants in the environment are disrupting human reproductive patterns and causing such problems as birth defects, sexual abnormalities, and reproductive failure.

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The Politics of Cancer Revisited
by Samuel D. Epstein

Epstein presents his views on why the environmental causes of cancer, the majority man-made, are not being seriously addressed, despite adequate scientific methodology and governmental regulation. The losing war on cancer is the result. Epstein also questions the methods and results of many of the well-known standard-bearers in the battle against cancer. (JAMA, May 2000)

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Cancer du sein : Entre raison et sentiments
Dominique Gros

Mal emblématique, le cancer du sein accompagne l'histoire des femmes. Il déborde infiniment le champ des connaissances et des actions de la médecine. Il renvoie aux questions fondamentales que se pose tout être humain. Mon avenir est-il une page blanche? Qu'est-ce que la vérité? La raison peut-elle rendre compte de tout? Est-ce que les autres m'aiment? Que peuvent les forces de l'esprit? Pourquoi ne suis-je pas immortel?

Pour répondre, l'auteur puise dans l'art, la psychologie, l'histoire ou la philosophie et illustre sa réflexion au travers de magnifiques illustrations en couleur. Il offre un plaidoyer pour une médecine du sein plus sereine, une analyse des ambiguïtés de la société face à une maladie devenue insupportable, soulève des interrogations sur des actions sanitaires collectives qui s'inscrivent dans le consumérisme, les enjeux médicaux, économiques et politiques.

Comment penser le cancer du sein, ce mal emblématique qui accompagne l'histoire des femmes, des hommes et des sociétés? Souvent « médicalement incorrect », l'ouvrage est une quête de vérité face à une maladie dépourvue de sens.

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Eco Beautiful: The ultimate Guide to Natural Beauty and Wellness
Lina Hanson

The eco-friendly and organic segment of the personal care market is the fastest growing in North American cosmetics-increasing by 30 percent every year! For the millions of women who seek a more natural, holistic beauty regimen, as well as those with sensitive or problem skin, this gorgeous, full-color book is an indispensable guide to beauty products that are not only good to the earth but also kind to the skin. With before-and-after application photos, helpful information, and green product suggestions in every price range, this is a beauty book like no other-truly eco-friendly and eco-beautiful.

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Dr. Epstein has plenty to say and it all needs to be said. Visit his site at to get a taste!

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Not Just a Pretty Face
Stacy Malkan
Not Just a Pretty Face delves deeply into the dark side of the beauty industry, and looks to hopeful solutions for a healthier future. This scathing investigation peels away less-than-lovely layers to expose an industry in dire need of an extreme makeover.

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In 1940, an American woman's lifetime risk of breast cancer was about 1-in-20. By 1993, that risk had become 1-in-8. This volume examines the evidence linking this alarming rise to the parallel increase in the use of estrogen, especially the Pill and hormone replacement therapy. (Book News, Inc.)

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Funny, thought-provoking, and incredibly disturbing, Slow Death by Rubber Duck reveals that just the living of daily life creates a chemical soup inside each of us. Pollution is no longer just about belching smokestacks and ugly sewer pipes — now, it's personal.

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Even the most media-savvy amongst you will be awed by the behind-the-scenes descriptions of the Public Relations industry in action so masterfully described in this book. If you want your eyes to be opened, open them upon the pages of this book.

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Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation
Of Cancer And The Environment
by Sandra Steingraber

Afflicted with cancer in her early 20s, Sandra writes as both a scientist and survivor. She shows the frightening correlation between the high incidence of cancer in various American communities and the dangerously high levels of environmental toxins.

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The authors list thousands of household products, personal care products, foods, and beverages—from car wax to mascara to soup and flea powder—by brand names, rating them for both short-term and long-term health hazards.

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