Hyping health risks : environmental hazards in daily life and the science of epidemiology /
Kabat, Geoffrey C.
Hyping health risks : environmental hazards in daily life and the science of epidemiology / Geoffrey C. Kabat. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2008. - xvi, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
"A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-238) and index.
Introduction : toward a sociology of health hazards in daily life -- Epidemiology : its uses, strengths, and limitations -- Does the environment cause breast cancer? -- Electromagnetic fields: the rise and fall of a "pervasive threat" -- The science and politics of residential radon -- The controversy over passive smoking : a casualty of the "tobacco wars" -- Conclusion.
9780231141482 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231141483 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780231511964 (e-book) 0231511965 (e-book)
2008007285
Health risk assessment--Social aspects--United States.
Epidemiology.
Environmental health.
RA566.27 / .K33 2008
615.9/02
Hyping health risks : environmental hazards in daily life and the science of epidemiology / Geoffrey C. Kabat. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2008. - xvi, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
"A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-238) and index.
Introduction : toward a sociology of health hazards in daily life -- Epidemiology : its uses, strengths, and limitations -- Does the environment cause breast cancer? -- Electromagnetic fields: the rise and fall of a "pervasive threat" -- The science and politics of residential radon -- The controversy over passive smoking : a casualty of the "tobacco wars" -- Conclusion.
9780231141482 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231141483 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780231511964 (e-book) 0231511965 (e-book)
2008007285
Health risk assessment--Social aspects--United States.
Epidemiology.
Environmental health.
RA566.27 / .K33 2008
615.9/02