Hyping health risks
Subtitle: environmental hazards in everyday life and the science of epidemiology
By: Geoffrey C. Kabat.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780231141482; 9780231511964
Subjects: Health risk assessment -- Social aspects -- United States.; Epidemiology.; Environmental health.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: toward a sociology of health hazards in everyday life; value: Epidemiology - its uses, strengths, and limitations; value: Does the environment cause breast cancer?; value: Electromagnetic fields and cancer: the rise and fall of a "pervasive threat"; value: The science and politics of residential radon; value: The controversy over passive smoking: a casualty of the "tobacco wars"; value: Conclusion.