Brown, Phil. <br/><br/>
Toxic exposures :  contested illnesses and the environmental health movement / 
Phil Brown. 
 - New York :  Columbia University Press,  c2007. 
 - xxxiv, 356 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-337) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780231129480 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231129483 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780231503259 (ebook) 0231503253 (ebook) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006034124 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA720245  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>101289995  DNLM 013694111  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Environmentally induced diseases.<br/>Asthma--Etiology.<br/>Breast--Cancer--Etiology.<br/>Persian Gulf syndrome--Etiology.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RB152.5  / .B76 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>615.9/02 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>2007 H-583 WA 30.5  / B878t 2007