Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

As an ecologist, Sandra Steingraber spent her professional life observing how living things interact with their environments. Now, 38 and pregnant, she had become a habitat--for a population of one.

Having Faith is Steingraber's exploration of the intimate ecology of motherhood. Using her scientist's eye to study the biological drama of new life being knit from the molecules of air, food, and water flowing into her body, she looks at the environmental hazards that now threaten pregnant and breastfeeding women, and examines the effects these toxins can have on a child. Having Faith makes the metamorphosis of a few cells into a baby astonishingly vivid, and the dangers to human reproduction urgently real.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 05/06/2003
ISBN: 9780425189993
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d