books on the implant subject

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For those who want to do some reading, here is a list of the books that I am personally aware of that have been published on the breast implant issue from our perspective:

(most recently published first)

CLEAVAGE: TECHNOLOGY, CONTROVERSY, AND THE IRONIES OF THE MAN-MADE BREAST

By Nora son

Feb. 2000, Rutgers University Press

ISBN: 0813527147

SILICONE SPILLS

Breast Implants on Trial

by White (University professor and sister to Attny Geoff White

who won for implant victim Charlotte Mahlum in the Nevada Mahlum vs Dow

Chemical case)

1998, Praeger Publishers

Westport, CT 06881

ISBN; 0-275-96359-4

SILICONE SURVIVORS:

Women's Experiences With Breast Implants

by M. Zimmerman

1998, Temple University Press

ISBN: 1566396123

BREAST IMPLANTS: FROM HELL TO HEALING

By Donna Townes

1997, Donna Townes ISBN: 1573970107

BETRAYED

by Gloria L. Bywalec and Marie Rzeppa

Gloria's private experience with saline implants that took her health.

1996, JMJ Publishing

Canton, MI 48187-0203

ISBN: 0-9652174-0-X

INFORMED CONSENT

BY A. Byrne

A heartwrenching, compelling personal story as Michigan executive Swanson,

creator and overseer of Dow Corning's ethics program, faced a moral crisis

when his wife, Colleen, began experiencing problems that she attributed to her

Dow-manufactured silicone breast implants: severe migraines, debilitating

joint and back pain, numbness in her arms and hands and extreme fatigue. In

1991, she underwent removal of the leaking implants, which had been in her

chest for 17 years. Her husband then recused himself from Dow's silicone

breast implant business, telling his employers that he would no longer help

the company defend itself against the growing onslaught of criticism and

lawsuits. He had gradually come to believe that Dow had failed to fully inform

women of the known risks and had ignored numerous opportunities to get out of

the implant business gracefully. Colleen Swanson settled a lawsuit against Dow

Corning out of court in 1993, and her husband, stigmatized at work, retired

that same year. 1995, McGraw-Hill

ISBN 0-07-011784-5

TORN ILLUSIONS by Pamela Stott-Kendall

Fully documented private and public expose of the worldwide medical tragedy

of silicone implants.

1994, Debcar Publishing

Fort Lauderdale Florida

ISBN: 0-9652783-0-1 (sc)

ISBN: 0-9652783-1-X (hc)

SILICONE-GATE

Exposing the Breast Implant Scandal

by Dr. Henry (the inventor of the saline breast implant, who regrets hisparticipation in this travesty)

1994, Henry

Siloam, AR

THE SILICONE BREAST IMPLANT CONTROVERSY

by B. Vasey, MD & Josh Feldstein

What Women Need to Know

1993, The Crossing Press

Freedom, CA 95019

ISBN; 0-89594-609-2