Lake Effect: Two Sisters and a Town's Toxic LegacyIsland Press, 18 mar 2010 - 208 páginas On her deathbed, Sue asked her sister for one thing: to write about the connection between the industrial pollution in their hometown and the rare cancer that was killing her. Fulfilling that promise has been Nancy Nichols’ mission for more than a decade. Lake Effect is the story of her investigation. It reaches back to their childhood in Waukegan, Illinois, an industrial town on Lake Michigan once known for good factory jobs and great fishing. Now Waukegan is famous for its Superfund sites: as one resident put it, asbestos to the north, PCBs to the south. Drawing on her experience as a journalist, Nichols interviewed dozens of scientists, doctors, and environmentalists to determine if these pollutants could have played a role in her sister’s death. While researching Sue’s cancer, she discovered her own: a vicious though treatable form of pancreatic cancer. Doctors and even family urged her to forget causes and concentrate on cures, but Nichols knew that it was relentless questioning that had led to her diagnosis. And that it is questioning—by government as well as individuals—that could save other lives. Lake Effect challenges us to ask why. It is the fulfillment of a sister’s promise. And it is a call to stop the pollution that is endangering the health of all our families. |
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... chemicals that had suffused our early years without our knowledge. In long, late-night phone calls, news of the contaminants mixed with news of what my sister was wearing, what kind of curtains she should get for her bedroom, and what ...
... chemicals that had suffused our early years without our knowledge. In long, late-night phone calls, news of the contaminants mixed with news of what my sister was wearing, what kind of curtains she should get for her bedroom, and what ...
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... chemical contamination in our hometown and her cancer. And once the seed of that possibility was planted, our curiosity took root. It was late the next year that my sister, weak and failing from chemotherapy and a bone-marrow transplant ...
... chemical contamination in our hometown and her cancer. And once the seed of that possibility was planted, our curiosity took root. It was late the next year that my sister, weak and failing from chemotherapy and a bone-marrow transplant ...
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... chemical called dioxin had been sprayed on the floors of horse stables and on dirt roads to manage dust. A river flood ... chemicals in 1976, a year before I graduated from high school and the same year that lakefront pollution was first ...
... chemical called dioxin had been sprayed on the floors of horse stables and on dirt roads to manage dust. A river flood ... chemicals in 1976, a year before I graduated from high school and the same year that lakefront pollution was first ...
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... chemical we know to be dangerous to human health is in one of those sites,” says Margaret Quinn, a professor at the ... chemicals among these have been associated with reproductive diseases, learning and attention deficits in children ...
... chemical we know to be dangerous to human health is in one of those sites,” says Margaret Quinn, a professor at the ... chemicals among these have been associated with reproductive diseases, learning and attention deficits in children ...
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... write an account of one person's illness, what I found was a universal story. Some of the toxic chemicals in my hometown are banned now, but they are still present in many places—and they are similar in both. 8 Lake Effect.
... write an account of one person's illness, what I found was a universal story. Some of the toxic chemicals in my hometown are banned now, but they are still present in many places—and they are similar in both. 8 Lake Effect.
Índice
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Coho Capital of the World | 19 |
The False Center of the Collage | 27 |
Lake Michigan Legacy | 35 |
A Marked Woman | 53 |
Miasma | 63 |
Hitchhiking Hormones | 73 |
Destiny | 99 |
Why Ask Why? | 111 |
Proof | 123 |
Epilogue | 135 |
Acknowledgments | 141 |
Notes | 145 |
Selected Bibliography | 163 |
Index | 171 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Lake Effect: Two Sisters and a Town's Toxic Legacy Nancy A. Nichols No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2010 |
Lake Effect: Two Sisters and a Town's Toxic Legacy Nancy A. Nichols No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2008 |
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