TY - BOOK AU - Kabat,Geoffrey C. TI - Hyping health risks: environmental hazards in daily life and the science of epidemiology SN - 9780231141482 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - RA566.27 .K33 2008 U1 - 615.9/02 22 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Health risk assessment KW - Social aspects KW - United States KW - Epidemiology KW - Environmental health N1 - "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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0811/2008007285.html ER -