Introduction: Planet Breast 1
Chapter 1 For Whom the Bells Toll 13
Chapter 2 Circular Beginnings 37
Chapter 3 Plumbing: A Primer 47
Chapter 4 Fill Her Up 57
Chapter 5 Toxic Assets: The Growing Breast 87
Chapter 6 Shampoo, Macaroni, and the American Girl: Spring Comes Early 105
Chapter 7 The Pregnancy Paradox 141
Chapter 8 What's for Dinner? 157
Chapter 9 Holy Crap: Herman, Hamlet, and the All-Important Human Gut 173
Chapter 10 Sour Milk 197
Chapter 11 An Unfamiliar Wilderness: Periods, the Pill, and Hrt 219
Chapter 12 The Few. The Proud. The Afflicted: Can Marines Solve the Puzzle of Breast Cancer? 237
Chapter 13 Are You Dense? The Aging Breast 257
Chapter 14 The Future of Breasts 275
Acknowledgments 285
Notes 289
Permission Credits 337