"A smart, wry synthesis of evolution, physiology, microbiology, environmental science, and even biomechanics."
Carl Zimmer "Akin to Rachel Carson's 1962 classic Silent Spring."
M. G. Lord "Exceptional." "Starred Review. Meant to nurture the next generation for life on planet Earth, breasts are also humanity's first responders to environmental changes. And what have modern-day chemical exposures wrought? The answers ... Read moreto this question and many more are found in Williams's remarkably informative and compelling work of discovery." "Williams has done us all-men and women-an enormous favor." "With a scientist's mind, a journalist's eye, and a mother's heart, Williams has produced a wide-ranging environmental history of the breast...Williams delineates one of the most consequential dramas at the intersection of human evolution and environmental change." "Highly informative and remarkably entertaining... [Williams's] inquisitive tone deftly melds careful reportage and a witty streak of lay skepticism." "Much like [Mary Roach's] Stiff, Breasts benefits from its author's field trips...Seen this way-the breast as a canary in a toxic coal mine-[Williams's] call to protect them feels both timely and urgent." "A wonderful and entertaining tour through the evolution, biology and cultural aspects of the organ that defines us as mammals!"
Susan Love, M.D., M.B.A., President of Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation Show Less