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Having Faith (Merloyd Lawrence)

Having Faith (Merloyd Lawrence)

by SandraSteingraber (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

    $9.69
Synopsis

Sandra Steingraber tells the month-by-month story of her own pregnancy, weaving in the new knowledge of embryology, the intricate development of organs, the emerging architecture of the brain, and the transformation of the mother's body to nourish and protect the new life. At the same time, she shows all the hazards that we are now allowing to threaten each precious stage of development, including the breastfeeding relationship between mothers and their newborns. In the eyes of an ecologist, the mother's body is the first environment, the mediator between the toxins in our food, water, and air and her unborn child.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 352
 Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc
Published: 05 Oct 2001
ISBN 10: 1903985145
ISBN 13: 9781903985144

Media Reviews
A fascinating journey into how women move through the often toxic terrain of pregnancy to the world of child nourishment and protection.
A cross between the quirkily thorough detail of Natalie Angier's science writing and the passionate environmental advocacy of Rachel Carson.
A fascinating journey into...the often toxic terrain of pregnancy to the world of child nourishment and protection.
Author Bio
Sandra Steingraber, PH.D. is the author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment and Post-Diagnosis, a volume of poetry. She received her doctorate in biological sciences from the University of Michigan and taught biology for several years at Columbia College, Chicago. The recipient of several awards for science writing, Steingraber was named a Ms. Magazine Woman of the Year in 1997. Recently, as part of international treaty negotiations, she breifed United Nations delegates in Geneva on breast milk contamination. She has been selected as the 2001 recipient of the Rachel Carson Leadership Award from Carson's alma mater, Chatham College. Currently on the faculty at Cornell University, she lives in Ithaca, New York, with her husband the sculptor Jeff de Castro, and their daugher Faith.