Toxic exposures : contested illnesses and the environmental health movement /
Brown, Phil.
New York : Columbia University Press,
c2007.
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.
Environmentally induced diseases.
Asthma
Breast
Persian Gulf syndrome