PRAISE
Highly recommended for all collections.
—The Library Journal
It is impossible not to be moved, sometimes to tears, sometimes to cheers,
by DES Stories.
—Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, United States Congress
Future generations are indebted to the author and those in this book for sharing
their experience.
—Theo Colborn, Ph.D., co-author Our Stolen Future
This is the book we’ve been waiting for; to tell the human story.
—Marlies Koester, health educator, DES Centrum The Netherlands
DES Stories puts DES where it should be; in the middle of public and private
discourse about hormones, technology, and our risk for chemical exposure.
—John McLachlan, Ph.D., Director, Center Bioenvironmental Research, Tulane
and Xavier Universities
Margaret Braun has compiled an important contribution to the literature and
understanding of DES exposure.
—Arthur L. Herbst, M.D., Chair Dept OB GYN, University of Chicago.
DES Stories brings home the DES tragedy to me in a way that even twenty years
of scientific study could not.
—Shanna Swan, Ph.D., epidemiologist, University of Missouri
Nancy Stuart’s portraits capture the moment of human honesty when men
and women speak their truth.
—Therese Mulligan, Curator of Photography, International Museum of Photography,
George Eastman House
DES Stories tells the story of one of the most devastating corporate and medical
mistakes of our time. Woven in these stories are important lessons about coping,
survival, life, and death.
—Susan P. Helmrich, Ph.D., co-founder and co-chair DES Cancer Network
DES Stories puts a human face on the DES issue that cannot be found in countless
medical statistics.
—Elizabeth Hatch, Ph.D. Boston University School of Public Health.
I encourage as many individuals as possible to read DES Stories closely to
prevent similar tragedies in the future.
—Raymond Kaufman, M.D. Professor, Department Obstetrics Gynecology, Baylor
College of Medicine
In DES Stories the survivors reveal with clarity the critical lessons the
DES ordeal has for us all.
—Chellis Glendinning, Ph.D., author When Technology Wounds:Human Consequences
of Progress
DES Stories bears witness to a major global medical event and gives meaning,
hope, and healing to people everywhere touched by DES.
—Roberta Apfel, M.D., M.P.H., Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry,
Harvard Medical School. Co-author To Do No Harm: DES and the Dilemmas of Modern
Medicine.
Nancy Stuart’s photographs reveal the emotional ties within family relationships
in this complex story.
—Paul Caponigro, photographer. Author Landscape, and Meditations in Light
DES Stories gives voice to a public health tragedy that while enormous has
remained relatively quiet. These eloquent stories have meaning for us all.
—Nora Cody, Executive Director, DES Action
Author Margaret Braun, one of the first individuals to endure the adverse
effects of this prescription drug, brings for the first time names and faces
to DES.
—Senator Tom Harkin, United States Senate
The brave voices of DES Stories inspire us to social change.
—Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., author Living Downstream and Having Faith
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