Hyping Health Risks : : Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology /

Hyping Health Risks : : Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology / / Geoffrey Kabat.

The media constantly bombard us with news of health hazards lurking in our everyday lives, but many of these hazards turn out to have been greatly overblown. According to author and epidemiologist Geoffrey C. Kabat, this hyping of low-level environmental hazards leads to needless anxiety and confusi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Kabat, Geoffrey,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 12 illus, 12 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • 1 INTRODUCTION: Toward a Sociology of Health Hazards in Daily Life
  • 2. EPIDEMIOLOGY
  • 3. DOES THE ENVIRONMENT CAUSE BREAST CANCER?
  • 4. ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS
  • 5. THE SCIENCE AND POLITICS OF RESIDENTIAL RADON
  • 6. THE CONTROVERSY OVER PASSIVE SMOKING
  • 7. CONCLUSION
  • APPENDIX A. List of Interviews
  • APPENDIX B. How Findings Can Be Reported in a Way That Puts Them in Perspective
  • NOTES
  • GLOSSARY
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • CREDITS
  • INDEX

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