Use this week’s readings (links below) to write about how health and population trends are influenced by environmental and societal trends.
Steingraber, Sandra. “The Social Production of Cancer: A Walk Upstream” in in Reclaiming the Environmental Debate: The Politics of Health in a Toxic Culture edited by Richard Hofrichter. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000.
Alkon and Norgaard. 2009. Breaking the Food Chains: An Investigation of Food Justice Activism. Sociological Inquiry.
Bryson et al. “Turning Public Issues into Private Troubles: Lead Contamination, Domestic Labor, and the Exploitation of Women.”
Film: The Garbage Warrior
