Toxic exposures : contested illnesses and the environmental health movement /
Brown, Phil.
Toxic exposures : contested illnesses and the environmental health movement / Phil Brown. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2007. - xxxiv, 356 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-337) and index.
Citizen-science alliances and health social movements: contested illnesses and challenges to the dominant epidemiological paradigm -- Breast cancer: a powerful movement and a struggle for science -- Asthma, environmental factors, and environmental justice -- Gulf War-related illnesses and the hunt for causation: the "stress of war" vs. the "dirty battlefield" -- Similarities and differences among asthma, breast cancer, and Gulf War illnesses -- The new precautionary approach: a public paradigm in progress -- Implications of the contested illnesses perspective -- Conclusion: the growing environmental health movement.
9780231129480 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231129483 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780231503259 (ebook) 0231503253 (ebook)
2006034124
GBA720245 bnb
101289995 DNLM 013694111 Uk
Environmentally induced diseases.
Asthma--Etiology.
Breast--Cancer--Etiology.
Persian Gulf syndrome--Etiology.
RB152.5 / .B76 2007
615.9/02
2007 H-583 WA 30.5 / B878t 2007
Toxic exposures : contested illnesses and the environmental health movement / Phil Brown. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2007. - xxxiv, 356 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-337) and index.
Citizen-science alliances and health social movements: contested illnesses and challenges to the dominant epidemiological paradigm -- Breast cancer: a powerful movement and a struggle for science -- Asthma, environmental factors, and environmental justice -- Gulf War-related illnesses and the hunt for causation: the "stress of war" vs. the "dirty battlefield" -- Similarities and differences among asthma, breast cancer, and Gulf War illnesses -- The new precautionary approach: a public paradigm in progress -- Implications of the contested illnesses perspective -- Conclusion: the growing environmental health movement.
9780231129480 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231129483 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780231503259 (ebook) 0231503253 (ebook)
2006034124
GBA720245 bnb
101289995 DNLM 013694111 Uk
Environmentally induced diseases.
Asthma--Etiology.
Breast--Cancer--Etiology.
Persian Gulf syndrome--Etiology.
RB152.5 / .B76 2007
615.9/02
2007 H-583 WA 30.5 / B878t 2007