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Toxic exposures : contested illnesses and the environmental health movement

Title
Toxic exposures : contested illnesses and the environmental health movement / Phil Brown.
Author
Brown, Phil.
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, [2007], ©2007.

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xxxiv, 356 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"Phil Brown argues that organized social movements are crucial in recognizing and acting to combat environmental diseases. His book draws on environmental and medical sociology, environmental justice, environmental health science, and social movement studies to show how citizen-science alliances have fought to overturn dominant epidemiological paradigms. His probing look at the ways scientific findings are made available to the public and the changing nature of policy offers a new perspective on health and the environment and the relationship among people, knowledge, power, and authority."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Environmentally induced diseases
  • Asthma > Etiology
  • Breast > Etiology
  • Persian Gulf syndrome > Etiology
  • Environmental Exposure > adverse effects
  • Asthma > etiology
  • Breast Neoplasms > etiology
  • Environmental Health > trends
  • Persian Gulf Syndrome > etiology
  • Public Policy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-337) and index.
Contents
Preface : toxic exposures and the challenge of environmental health -- 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 differences 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.
ISBN
  • 9780231129480 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0231129483 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780231503259 (ebook)
  • 0231503253 (ebook)
LCCN
2006034124
OCLC
  • ocm73927166
  • 73927166
  • SCSB-5349988
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries