Stories by Laura Potts

Features
- Time to take prevention seriously
  
  As the incidence of breast cancer in the UK continues to rise, a national strategy to tackle its causes is long overdue, argues Laura Potts
- Hidden dangers on home ground
  
  Screening programmes have their place – but where is the research and action on the causes of breast cancer? Laura Potts reports on how women’s groups are initiating their own research
- Breast cancer on the map
  
  While screeening for and treating breast cancer attract plenty of media coverage, little attention is paid to the environmental causes of the disease. Laura Potts says it’s time to redress the balance
- From private shame to public campaign
  
  The medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry have between them created a ‘breast cancer industry’ which neglects the needs of women themselves, argue Laura Potts and Mary Twomey
News
- Protesters highlight environmental causes of breast cancer
- In brief
Reviews
- To be taken in small doses
  
  Regulation of the Pharmaceutical Industry
  eds. John Abraham and Helen Lawton Smith
  Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. £55
- Arguments for change
  
  HEALTH AND SOCIAL CHANGE: a critical theory
  Graham Scambler
  Open University Press, 2002, £16.99
- Something for almost everyone
  
  HEALTH AND DISEASE: A reader (3rd edition)
  Basiro Davey, Alastair Gray and Clive Seale (eds)
  Open University Press, 2001, £17.99
- Careful caring
  
  GENDER, HEALTH AND HEALING: the public/private divide
  Edited by Gillian Bendelow, Mick Carpenter, Caroline Vautier and Simon Williams
  Routledge, 2001, £18.99
- The usual suspects
  
  THE SOCIOLOGY AND POLITICS OF HEALTH: A reader
  Purdy M, Banks D (eds)
  Routledge, 2001, £17.99
- Facts, but no feelings
  
  REGULATING THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL
  David Taylor and Andrew Tucker
  King’s Fund, 2000, £7.99
- Helping ‘mother nature’
  
  NATURAL PROGESTERONE: the multiple roles of a remarkable hormone
  John R Lee
  Jon Carpenter, 1999
- Food policy digested
  
  Perfectly Safe to Eat? The facts on food
  Vicki Hird
  Women’s Press, 2000, £8.99
- Thinking globally
  
  HEALTH ECOLOGY: health, culture and human-environment interaction
  M Honari & T Boleyn (eds)
  Routledge, 1999
- Whose quality of life is it?
  
  EXPERIENCING CANCER: quality of life in treatment
  Kirsten Costain Schou and Jenny Hewison
  Open University Press, 1999
- A just sociology of health
  
  HEALTH MATTERS: a sociology of illness, prevention and care
  Alan Petersen and Charles Waddell (eds)
  Open University Press, 1998, £16.99
- Beyond the baskets
  
  GM FREE: a shopper’s guide to genetically modified food
  Sue Dibb and Tim Lobstein
  Virgin, 1999, £4.99
- Eating, out in the open
  
  FOOD, HEALTH AND IDENTITY
  Pat Caplan (ed)
  Routledge, 1997, £15.99
- Everybody is some body
  
  THE BODY IN EVERYDAY LIFE
  Nettleton S and Watson J (eds)
  Routledge, 1998, £15.99
- Well-being and being women
  
  WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE OF FEMINIST THERAPY AND COUNSELLING
  Eileen McLeod
  Open University Press, 1994
- Consuming with care
  
  What the label doesn’t tell you
  Sue Dibb
  Thorsons, 1997, £6.99
- Stories worth hearing
  
  LIVES WORTH LIVING: women’s experience of chronic illness
  Veronica Marris
  Pandora Press, 1996
- Sleeping with the enemy?
  
  Partners in Purchasing? The role of the CHC in commissioning health services
  Nikki Joule
  Greater London Association of Community Health Councils, 1993
Letter
- Breast cancer: now start a campaign for real prevention