BREASTS: A book talk by Florence Williams

BREASTS: A book talk by Florence Williams

Wednesday, March 13, 20137:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.  Rosen Auditorium

In Celebration of Women's History Month

Co-hosted with the Donahue Institute for Values and Public Life

Feted and fetishized, the breast is an evolutionary masterpiece. But in the mod-ern world, the breast is changing. Breasts are get-ting bigger, arriving earlier and attracting newfangled chemicals. Increasingly, the odds are stacked against us in the struggle with breast cancer - even among men. What makes breasts so mer-curial - and so vulnerable?

The intrepid science journal-ist Florence Williams sets out to uncover the latest science from the fields of anthropology, biology, and medicine. Her investigation follows the life cycle of the breast from puberty to preg-nancy to menopause, bring-ing her from a plastic sur-geon's office where she learns about the importance of cup size in Texas to a lab where she discovers the presence of environmental 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.