What Caused My Cancer?
Was it bad genes? Bad luck? Or was it the toxins I eat, drink, breathe, and touch on a regular basis because the United States has a policy of putting the burden of proof for product safety on the consumer?
Shana Bernstein is a historian and clinical associate professor of legal studies at Northwestern University. She writes and teaches about issues of social justice, and is the author of Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles and a Public Voices Fellow with The OpEd Project.