Toxic exposures
Subtitle: contested illnesses and the environmental health movement
By: Phil Brown
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780231129480; 9780231503259
Subjects: Asthme; Asthma; Brustkrebs; Persian Gulf Syndrome; Maladies de l'environnement; Einflussnahme; Umweltbelastung; Environmentally induced diseases; Gesundheitsgefährdung; Environmental Health; Public Policy; Etiology; Cancer; Persian Gulf syndrome; Environmental Exposure; Trends; Syndrome de la guerre du Golfe; Breast Neoplasms; Bronchialasthma; Sein; Breast; Adverse effects; Étiologie; Golfkrieg-Syndrom; Kontroverse; Umweltkrankheit; Bürgerrechtsbewegung
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-337) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Lois Gibbs; title: Preface : Toxic exposures and the challenge of environmental health --; title: Acknowledgments --; title: List of abbreviations -- -- 1.; title: Citizen-science alliances and health social movements : contested illnesses and challenges to the dominant epidemiological paradigm -- -- 2.; title: Breast cancer : a powerful movement and a struggle for science -- -- 3.; title: Asthma, environmental factors, and environmental justice -- -- 4.; title: Gulf War-related illnesses and the hunt for causation : the "stress of war" versus the "dirty battlefield" -- -- 5.; title: Similarities and differences among asthma, breast cancer, and Gulf War illnesses -- -- 6. The; title: new precautionary approach : a public paradigm in progress -- -- 7.; title: Implications of the contested illnesses perspective -- -- 8.; title: Conclusion : the growing environmental health movement --; title: Notes --; title: Bibliography --; title: Index.