Contents

About the Author

Introduction • Planet Breast

1 • For Whom the Bells Toll

2 • Circular Beginnings

3 • Plumbing: A Primer

4 • Fill Her Up

5 • Toxic Assets: The Growing Breast

6 • Shampoo, Macaroni, and the Americal Girl: Spring Comes Early

7 • The Pregnancy Paradox

8 • What's For Dinner?

9 • Holy Crap: Herman, Hamlet, and the All-Important Human Gut

10 • Sour Milk

11 • An Unfamiliar Wilderness: Periods, the Pill, and HRT

12 • The Few, the Proud, the Afflicted: Can Marines Solve the Puzzle of Breast Cancer?

13 • Are You Dense? The Aging Breast

14 • The Future of Breasts

Acknowledgements

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