Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History

✍ Scribed by Williams, Florence

• Book ID: 107359067
• Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

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 in the struggle with breast cancer - even among men. What makes breasts so mercurial - and so vulnerable?

The intrepid science journalist Florence Williams sets out to uncover the latest science from the fields of anthropology, biology, and medicine. Her investigation follows the life cycle of the breast from puberty to pregnancy to menopause. Endowed with a witty and inquisitive voice, Williams explores where breasts came from, where they have ended up, and what we can do to save them.

'Florence Williams's double-D talents as a reporterand writer lift this book high above the genre and separate it from theranks of ordinary science writing. Breasts is illuminating,...