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red_magpie's review against another edition
4.0
Beautifully and accessibly written but also eye-opening and infuriating.
benjobuks's review
4.0
Insane popular science treatise on the environmental factors for cancer. Damning evidence against the EPA and federal and state government more broadly for how they've failed us as citizens in toxin regulations, particularly those from low income communities. Having dived into the EPA legislation and toxin regulations myself, her clear comments and critiques are mind-blowing (that stuff is difficult to come away from with anything substantial. It's truly meant to be disorienting and her analysis is brilliant.) A model of clear science writing with emotionally poignant personal pieces and prose interwoven throughout. Highly recommend for anybody interested in learning more about the forces stalling environmental health legislation and the issues more broadly.
drake_p's review against another edition
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
sweetpeppah's review
5.0
frightening but not extremist. very reasoned and carefully written, lots of information on how complicated the relationship between cancer and our environment is. i have no biology background and the details were still made clear, quite impressive! the author has an intriguing personal conflict.. she obviously feels powerfully connected to her natural(and even man-made) environments, but they have probably betrayed her by silently concentrating and then passing on dangerous chemicals.
alitrevisan105's review against another edition
4.0
Very enlightening and interesting book. Although she seems to blame cancer solely on environmental issues, there are a lot of interesting concepts to talk about.
greenspe's review
4.0
Ingeniously structured and bursting at the seams with research. It was occasionally almost too technical for me, but Steingraber is a great writer and intersperses relevant anecdotes about her own cancer diagnosis and growing up in a farming community amongst in-depth descriptions of endocrine disruptors and DNA adducts.
More than anything else I've read, "Living Downstream" has motivated me to learn more about ecology, our exposure to petrochemicals, and how to support local, organic farming practices. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to be more acquainted with the science and policy behind public health, cancer research and treatment, and the chemicals we allow in our environment.
More than anything else I've read, "Living Downstream" has motivated me to learn more about ecology, our exposure to petrochemicals, and how to support local, organic farming practices. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to be more acquainted with the science and policy behind public health, cancer research and treatment, and the chemicals we allow in our environment.
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