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Article: Living downstream: an interview with Sandra Steingraber. (ecologist, poet, author and internationally recognized expert on environmentally related cancer)(Interview)
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- Multinational Monitor
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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Ecologist, poet and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized expert on the environmental links to cancer. She is the author of Post-Diagnosis, a volume of poetry, and co-author of a work on ecology and human rights in Africa, The Spoils of Famine. She has taught biology and held visiting fellowships at several universities, and was recently appointed to serve on President Clinton's National Action Plan on Breast Cancer. She was named Ms. Magazine's 1997 Woman of the Year, and is the author of 1997's highly acclaimed Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment.
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