Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History by Florence Williams (Author). An engaging narrative about an unbelievable, life-giving organ and its imperiled fashionable fate.
Did you know that breast milk accommodates substances much like hashish? Or that it’s offered on the Internet for 262 instances the worth of oil? Feted and fetishized, the breast is an evolutionary masterpiece. But in the modern world, the breast is changing. Breasts are getting bigger, arriving earlier, and attracting newfangled chemicals. Increasingly, the odds are stacked against us within the struggle with breast cancer, even among men. What makes breasts so mercurial-and so weak?
On this informative and extremely entertaining account, the intrepid science reporter Florence Williams units out to uncover the newest scientific findings from the fields of anthropology, biology, and medicine. Her investigation follows the life cycle of the breast from puberty to being pregnant to menopause, taking her from a plastic surgeon’s office the place she learns in regards to the significance of cup measurement in Texas to the laboratory the place she discovers the presence of environmental toxins in her own breast milk. The result's an interesting exploration of the place breasts got here from, the place they've ended up, and what we will do to save them.
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Breasts begins with an inventory of humorous words for breasts ("Funbags. Boobsters. Chumbawumbas. Dingle bobbers...") and the ebook incorporates funny anecdotes throughout. Nonetheless, at it's core, it is a severe guide, chock filled with vital information. Williams asks: Why are women creating breasts at a younger age than ever before? What are the toxins in our environment doing to our breasts? How do the hormones in contraception pills have an effect on our breasts? She additionally addresses some much less critical however truly attention-grabbing subjects, such as why we have now breasts to start with (and why so many male scientists get the answer incorrect). You probably have breasts or have a daughter, mother or sister with them, it's best to read this book. Really, if one way or the other you miraculously don't, you continue to should. She addresses male breast most cancers as well. An overall great read.
This e-book is funny, irreverent, well-researched, and totally engaging. Florence Williams does her research. She takes us on a tour de boob from its evolutionary history to the EPA, from a plastic surgeon's workplace to breasts' susceptibility to environmental exposures, using her personal body as guinea pig. She dives into 18th century anatomical texts, and follows the most recent analysis on early puberty and its link to breast cancer. Williams' prose is obvious and eloquent, and at occasions hilarious. She strikes the proper steadiness between informing, educating and entertaining the reader. This e-book is a page-turner, and the information in it couldn't be more timely. Put this e-book on your Should Read record and share it with everyone you know.
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
Florence Williams (Author)
352 pages
W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition edition (May 7, 2012)
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