Marcy's favorite books about cancer & its contexts

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Silent Spring
Silent Spring 4.05 avg rating — 53,311 ratings
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World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17
World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17 4.29 avg rating — 472 ratings
3.
Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story
Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story 4.11 avg rating — 861 ratings
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Recalled by Life
Recalled by Life 4.21 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Manmade Breast Cancers
Manmade Breast Cancers 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Macrobiotic Diet
Macrobiotic Diet 3.74 avg rating — 87 ratings
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The Cancer Journals: Special Edition
The Cancer Journals: Special Edition 4.42 avg rating — 5,109 ratings
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The Essiac Report: The True Story of a Canadian Herbal Cancer Remedy and of the Thousands of Lives It Continues to Save
The Essiac Report: The True Story of a Canadian Herbal Cancer Remedy and of the Thousands of Lives It Continues to Save 4.32 avg rating — 25 ratings
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A Burst of Light
A Burst of Light 4.38 avg rating — 1,976 ratings
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A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery 4.28 avg rating — 1,317 ratings
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The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War
The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War 4.27 avg rating — 594 ratings
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Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman 1952-64-The Story of a Remarkable Friendship
Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman 1952-64-The Story of a Remarkable Friendship 4.36 avg rating — 107 ratings
13.
Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson
Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson 4.31 avg rating — 275 ratings
14.
Patient No More: The Politics of Breast Cancer
Patient No More: The Politics of Breast Cancer 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
15.
Breast Cancer: Poisons, Profits and Preventions
Breast Cancer: Poisons, Profits and Preventions it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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So Much to Be Done: The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner
So Much to Be Done: The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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A Darker Ribbon: A Twentieth-Century Story of Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors
A Darker Ribbon: A Twentieth-Century Story of Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War
American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War 4.67 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Baghdad Diaries: A Woman's Chronicle of War and Exile
Baghdad Diaries: A Woman's Chronicle of War and Exile 3.61 avg rating — 412 ratings
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,368 ratings
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Post-Diagnosis
Post-Diagnosis 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment 4.21 avg rating — 836 ratings
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The Terrible Stories
The Terrible Stories 4.29 avg rating — 268 ratings
24.
What Girls Learn
What Girls Learn 3.53 avg rating — 767 ratings
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Kissing God Goodbye: Poems 1991-1997
Kissing God Goodbye: Poems 1991-1997 4.30 avg rating — 250 ratings
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Movement in Black
Movement in Black 4.54 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Squares and Courtyards: Poems
Squares and Courtyards: Poems 3.94 avg rating — 48 ratings
28.
The Wounded Breast: Intimate Journeys Through Cancer
The Wounded Breast: Intimate Journeys Through Cancer 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Winter Numbers: Poems
Winter Numbers: Poems 3.99 avg rating — 119 ratings
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A Dialogue on Love
A Dialogue on Love 4.06 avg rating — 303 ratings
31.
Selected Poems 1965-1990
Selected Poems 1965-1990 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 120 ratings
32.
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place 4.18 avg rating — 10,618 ratings
33.
Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons
Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons 4.12 avg rating — 656 ratings
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The Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American Culture
The Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American Culture 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
35.
The Secret History of the War on Cancer
The Secret History of the War on Cancer 4.05 avg rating — 385 ratings
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Hollis Sigler's Breast Cancer Journal
Hollis Sigler's Breast Cancer Journal 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment
Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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It's Always Something
It's Always Something 4.10 avg rating — 10,543 ratings
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Unbearable Uncertainty: The Fear of Breast Cancer Recurrence--an Anthology
Unbearable Uncertainty: The Fear of Breast Cancer Recurrence--an Anthology really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Lovely Me: The Life of Jacqueline Susann
Lovely Me: The Life of Jacqueline Susann 3.93 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Waking Up/Fighting Back: The Politics of Breast Cancer
Waking Up/Fighting Back: The Politics of Breast Cancer liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Fat Art, Thin Art
Fat Art, Thin Art 3.55 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Living on the Margins: Women Writers on Breast Cancer
Living on the Margins: Women Writers on Breast Cancer
by: Hilda Raz
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
44.
Teratologies
Teratologies 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
45.
The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography
The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography 3.74 avg rating — 82 ratings
46.
Reports from the Holocaust: The Story of An AIDS Activist
Reports from the Holocaust: The Story of An AIDS Activist 4.23 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature 4.21 avg rating — 245 ratings
48.
Art.Rage.Us.: Art and Writing by Women with Breast Cancer
Art.Rage.Us.: Art and Writing by Women with Breast Cancer 4.59 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Dharma Girl: A Road Trip Across the American Generations
Dharma Girl: A Road Trip Across the American Generations 3.56 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Breast Cancer Journal: A Century of Petals
Breast Cancer Journal: A Century of Petals liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Healing Narratives: Women Writers Curing Cultural Disease
Healing Narratives: Women Writers Curing Cultural Disease 2.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Mary Austin: Song of a Maverick
Mary Austin: Song of a Maverick really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Putting Myself in the Picture
Putting Myself in the Picture
by: Jo Spence
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
54.
Tree & The Woman Who Slept With Men to Take the War Out of Them
Tree & The Woman Who Slept With Men to Take the War Out of Them 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Coming Out of Cancer: Writings from the Lesbian Cancer Epidemic
Coming Out of Cancer: Writings from the Lesbian Cancer Epidemic 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Her Soul beneath the Bone: WOMEN'S POETRY ON BREAST CANCER
Her Soul beneath the Bone: WOMEN'S POETRY ON BREAST CANCER really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Journey Beyond Breast Cancer: From the Personal to the Political--Taking an Active Role in Prevention, Diagnosis, and Your Own Healing
The Journey Beyond Breast Cancer: From the Personal to the Political--Taking an Active Role in Prevention, Diagnosis, and Your Own Healing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Recovering: A Journal
Recovering: A Journal 4.11 avg rating — 415 ratings
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Preventing Breast Cancer: The Politics of an Epidemic
Preventing Breast Cancer: The Politics of an Epidemic liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Divine Honors
Divine Honors
by: Hilda Raz
4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
61.
Bequest and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent's Death
Bequest and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent's Death 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
62.
Twenty Something and Breast Cancer: Images in Healing
Twenty Something and Breast Cancer: Images in Healing liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Holding Tight, Letting Go: Living With Metastatic Breast Cancer
Holding Tight, Letting Go: Living With Metastatic Breast Cancer really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment
Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment 3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings
65.
Wet Earth and Dreams: A Narrative of Grief and Recovery
Wet Earth and Dreams: A Narrative of Grief and Recovery 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
66.
Picasso's Woman: A Breast Cancer Story
Picasso's Woman: A Breast Cancer Story 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
67.
Treading the Maze: An Artist's Journey Through Breast Cancer
Treading the Maze: An Artist's Journey Through Breast Cancer really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
68.
Pauline: A Biography of Pauline Johnson
Pauline: A Biography of Pauline Johnson 3.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
69.
Flint and Feather: The Complete Poems
Flint and Feather: The Complete Poems 4.03 avg rating — 95 ratings
70.
The Anna Papers
The Anna Papers 4.01 avg rating — 866 ratings
71.
No Mountain Too High: A Triumph over Breast Cancer (Adventura Books)
No Mountain Too High: A Triumph over Breast Cancer (Adventura Books) 3.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
72.
Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss 4.30 avg rating — 3,955 ratings
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Motherloss
Motherloss 3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings
74.
Journals and Letters
Journals and Letters 4.12 avg rating — 178 ratings
75.
Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law and Endangers Your Health
Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law and Endangers Your Health
by: Dan Fagin
3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings
76.
Earth Horizon (Southwest Heritage Series)
Earth Horizon (Southwest Heritage Series) 3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings
77.
Estrogen and Breast Cancer: A Warning to Women
Estrogen and Breast Cancer: A Warning to Women 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Designer Poisons: How to Protect Your Health and Home from Toxic Pesticides
Designer Poisons: How to Protect Your Health and Home from Toxic Pesticides it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Environmental Cancer―A Political Disease?
Environmental Cancer―A Political Disease? 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
80.
Life's Delicate Balance
Life's Delicate Balance 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
81.
The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America
The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America 3.95 avg rating — 56 ratings
82.
Secrets and Lies: The Anatomy of an Anti-Environmental PR Campaign
Secrets and Lies: The Anatomy of an Anti-Environmental PR Campaign 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
83.
My Breast, One Woman's Cancer Story (Plucky Cancer Girl Strikes Back Book 1)
My Breast, One Woman's Cancer Story (Plucky Cancer Girl Strikes Back Book 1) 3.57 avg rating — 47 ratings
84.
Toxic Sludge Is Good for You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry
Toxic Sludge Is Good for You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 632 ratings
85.
Cancer in Two Voices
Cancer in Two Voices 4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Grace & Grit: Spirituality & Healing in the Life & Death of Treya Killam Wilber
Grace & Grit: Spirituality & Healing in the Life & Death of Treya Killam Wilber 4.47 avg rating — 1,765 ratings
87.
The Death and Letters of Alice James
The Death and Letters of Alice James 3.39 avg rating — 23 ratings
88.
Anatomy, Errata
Anatomy, Errata liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
89.
The Crack In Everything (Pitt Poetry Series)
The Crack In Everything (Pitt Poetry Series) 3.71 avg rating — 65 ratings
90.
The Red Devil: To Hell with Cancer--and Back
The Red Devil: To Hell with Cancer--and Back 3.96 avg rating — 121 ratings
91.
Cancer As A Womens Issue (Women/Cancer/Fear/Power Series, Vol 1)
Cancer As A Womens Issue (Women/Cancer/Fear/Power Series, Vol 1) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Confronting Cancer, Constructing Change: New Perspectives on Women and Cancer (Women/Cancer/Fear/Power, Vol 2)
Confronting Cancer, Constructing Change: New Perspectives on Women and Cancer (Women/Cancer/Fear/Power, Vol 2) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
93.
First, You Cry
First, You Cry 3.98 avg rating — 442 ratings
94.
Seeing The Crab: A Memoir Before Dying
Seeing The Crab: A Memoir Before Dying 3.79 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Times of My Life
The Times of My Life 3.89 avg rating — 158 ratings
96.
Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic
Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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To Dance with the Devil: The New War on Breast Cancer; Politics, Power, People
To Dance with the Devil: The New War on Breast Cancer; Politics, Power, People 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Preventing Breast Cancer: The Story of a Major, Proven, Preventable Cause of This Disease
Preventing Breast Cancer: The Story of a Major, Proven, Preventable Cause of This Disease really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Why Me: What Every Woman Should Know About Breast Cancer to Save Her Life
Why Me: What Every Woman Should Know About Breast Cancer to Save Her Life liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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1 In 3: Women With Cancer Confront an Epidemic
1 In 3: Women With Cancer Confront an Epidemic really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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