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Breasts : a natural and unnatural history / Florence Williams.
- Description: ix, 338 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2012.
- ISBN: 9780393063189 (hardcover) :
- ISBN: 0393063186 (hardcover) :
Available copies
- 11 copies at NOBLE (All Libraries).
Current holds
0 current holds with 12 total copies.
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beverly Main | Adult Nonfiction | QM 495 .W55 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Danvers | New Books | NEW QM 495 W55 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Endicott College | General Collection | QM 495 .W55 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Gloucester | Adult Nonfiction | 612.664/Williams (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Marblehead | Adult New Nonfiction | NEW 612.664 WILLIAMS 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Melrose | New Books (Browsing Room) | 612.664 Williams (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Middlesex - Bedford Campus | Stacks | QM495 .W55 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| North Shore - Danvers Campus | Stacks | QM 495 .W55 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Peabody Main | Adult Nonfiction | NEW QM 495 .W55 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Salem | Adult Non-Fiction | 612.664/WILLIAMS (Text to phone) | Checked out | 09/11/2012 |
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| Contents: | Planet breast -- For whom the bells toll -- Circular beginnings -- Plumbing: a primer -- Fill her up -- Toxic assets: the growing breast -- Shampoo, macaroni, and the American girl: spring comes early -- The pregnancy paradox -- What's for dinner? -- Holy crap: Herman, Hamlet, and the all-important human gut -- Sour milk -- An unfamiliar wilderness: periods, the pill, and HRT -- The few, the proud, the afflicted: can Marines solve the puzzle of breast cancer? -- Are you dense? : the aging breast -- The future of breasts. |
| Summary: | Feted and fetishized, the breast is an evolutionary masterpiece. But breasts are changing. They are getting bigger, arriving earlier, and attracting newfangled chemicals. Increasingly, the odds are stacked against us in the struggle against breast cancer, even among men. What makes breasts so mercurial and so vulnerable? The author, a science journalist sets out to uncover the latest science from the fields of anthropology, biology, and medicine in this expose about the breast, an incredible life-giving organ and its imperiled modern fate. |
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History. Breast > Psychological aspects. Breast > Health aspects. Breast > Diseases > Environmental aspects. Breast milk > Contamination > Environmental aspects. Breast > History. |
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