Technological advances have often surpassed scientific knowledge associated with the causes that determine health. Increasing complications in social organization increase the possibilities by which multiple agents can disrupt health, including factors such as those that endanger physical health such as poisonous chemicals or radiation, restricted access to resources pure sanitary and natural, and their infinite amalgamation. Decisions made in areas seemingly unrelated to health are often likely to have a positive or negative impact on people's health due to the large number of links and connections in modern life. Healthcare is a field made up of very complex systems, which can be accidentally disrupted in unpredictable ways and result in adverse health problems that can be serious and irrevocable. Precaution has been at the heart of public health security for centuries, and the precautionary principle is undeniably linked to playing in doubt, which is a common situation these days. The fact that Steingraber suffered from cancer at an early age made her wonder about what was behind it. Many members of her family suffered from cancer, and the fact that she was adopted made her think about factors common to families other than their genes. Since training as a biologist, she began looking for answers in previous scientific research. One of the obstacles preventing us from tackling the environmental roots of cancer is the word lifestyle. Lifestyle risks are not independent of environmental risks. Our lives take place in the ecological world..." (pp. 270) comes from her personal experience as she states that we tend to ignore the risks we...... middle of paper ...... problems environmental through her books "Living Downstream", "Having Faith: An Environmentalist's Journey to Motherhood" (discovers the precious biology of motherhood. Both an account of her own pregnancy and a study of toxicology fetal) and “Raising Elijah: Protecting Children in a Time of Environmental Crisis,” where she writes about her major concern that our children face an atmosphere more intimidating to their health than any previous generation. Rachel Carson's Maine Connections She was staying on Southport Island when she helped establish the Maine chapter of “Nature Conservation.” In 1956, Carson and some concerned citizens gathered on the coast of Maine to talk about the threats they were seeing around them and to think about what could possibly be done. Each idea was promising but none seemed likely to come to fruition.. .