Toxic Exposures : : Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement /

Toxic Exposures : : Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement / / Phil Brown.

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The increase in environmentally induced diseases and the loosening of regulation and safety measures have inspired a massive challenge to established ways of looking at health and the environment. Communities with disease clusters, women facing a growing breast cancer incidence rate, and people of c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Brown, Phil,
MitwirkendeR:
Gibbs, Lois,
TeilnehmendeR:
Gibbs, Lois.
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.) :; 12 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • PREFACE: Toxic Exposures and the Challenge of Environmental Health
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • 1. Citizen- Science Alliances and Health Social Movements: Contested Illnesses and Challenges to the Dominant Epidemiological Paradigm
  • 2. Breast Cancer: A Powerful Movement and a Struggle for Science
  • 3. Asthma, Environmental Factors, and Environmental Justice
  • 4. Gulf War-Related Illnesses and the Hunt for Causation: The "Stress of War" Versus the "Dirty Battlefield"
  • 5. Similarities and Diff erences Among Asthma, Breast Cancer, and Gulf War Illnesses
  • 6. The New Precautionary Approach: A Public Paradigm in Progress
  • 7. Implications of the Contested Illnesses Perspective
  • 8. Conclusion: The Growing Environmental Health Movement
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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