Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History - Couverture souple

Williams, Florence

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393345076 ISBN 13 : 9780393345070

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2013

Synopsis

Breasts An engaging narrative about an incredible, life-giving organ and its imperiled modern fate. Full description

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"Florence William's double-D talents as a reporter and writer lift this book high above the genre and separate it from the ranks of ordinary science writing. Breasts is illuminating, surprising, clever, important. Williams is an author to savor and look forward to." --Mary Roach, author of Stiff

"...an engagingly written book..." --BBC Focus

"You certainly won't regret reading Breasts." --The Guardian

"...Florence Williams's tome...is a fascinating - and occasionally frightening - exploration of these most fetishised of body parts." --Evening Standard

"Florence Williams deserves our gratitude for bringing the general issue to our attention...and for educating, stimulating and entertaining us along the way." --The Times Literary Supplement

"Florence Williams's excellent book shines light on a much-misunderstood part of the body...Breasts is a seriously good book. It's well written, scientifically literate, engrossing and occasionally terrifying." --New Statesman

"...a witty, well-researched and eminently readable book." --Literary Review

"Williams's great success is in proving that breasts are even more fascinating inside than out..." --The Scotsman

"Highly informative and remarkably entertaining..." ----Elle

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Feted and fetishised, the breast is an evolutionary masterpiece. But breasts are changing - they 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. In asking what makes breasts so mercurial - and so vulnerable - Florence Williams uncovers the latest science from the fields of anthropology, biology and medicine. Her investigation follows the life cycle of the breast, bringing her from a plastic surgeon's office, where she learns about the importance of cup size in Texas, to a laboratory where she discovers the presence of toxins in her own breast milk. 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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0393345076
• ISBN 13: 9780393345070
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 352