Through the Northern Looking Glass Breast Cancer Stories (NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR NURSING SERIES (ALL NLN TITLES)) [Paperback]

Lorelei Lambert-Colomeda (Author), Larelei Anne Lambert Colomeda (Author), Colomeda (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0887376827 | ISBN-13: 978-0887376825 | Publication Date: January 1996 | Edition: 1

Patient Education

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers; 1 edition (January 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0887376827
• ISBN-13: 978-0887376825
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,341,598 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars This is an amazing book on public health of Native Americans, November 20, 1997

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This review is from: Through the Northern Looking Glass Breast Cancer Stories (NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR NURSING SERIES (ALL NLN TITLES)) (Paperback)

This is an amazing book on public health of Native Americans which nobody else but a Native American could have written. It introduces the reader to the complexity of health, environment, spirituality and survival of one of the most disadvanted people living on Mother Earth. Breast cancer among women, we assume, is a lifestyle disease among affluent westernized women. Lori Colomeda tells a different, a frightening story from the Arctic Circle. Remember? Fresh, clean air, fresh water, fresh seafood? Forget about it. Colomeda leads you into an area of human and medical ecology you wouldn't have thought it existed. The Circumpolar regions are currently the regions of the world with one of the highest prevalences of cancer, and of breast cancer among women in particular. Why? Well, one of the causes is the fallout of pollution hitting these areas via climate and atmospheric streams. We may not inhale the pollutants in New York City or London, because they travel up North. "Through the Northern Looking Glass" leaves us pretty ugly people destroying the fundaments of our life and most of all: Mother Earth. This is an excellent study on environment, public health and culture. If you only want to read one book shaking up your westernized mind as regards public health, why don't you try Lori Colomeda. This is strong medicine.