Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment

Compelling evidence suggests that human exposure to some toxic chemicals can have lifelong and even intergenerational effects on reproduction and development.

Generations at Risk presents compelling evidence that human exposure to some toxic chemicals can have lifelong and even intergenerational effects on human reproduction and development. The result of a collaboration involving public health professionals, physicians, environmental educators, and policy advocates, this book examines how scientific, social, economic, and political systems may fail to protect us from environmental and occupational toxicants. It is an important sourcebook for those concerned about their own health and that of their loved ones, as well as for medical and public health workers, community activists, policymakers, and industrial decision makers.

Ted Schettler, M.D., M.P.H., is in the Department of Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center, and Co-Chair of the Human Health and the Environment Project of Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility. Gina Solomon, M.D., M.P.H., is a Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. Maria Valenti is a researcher, writer, and consultant on environmental and social justice issues. Annette Huddle, M.E.S., is a writer and environmental educator.