Hyping health risks
Subtitle: environmental hazards in daily life and the science of epidemiology
By: Geoffrey C. Kabat.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780231141482; 9780231511964
Subjects: Health risk assessment -- Social aspects -- United States; Epidemiology; Environmental health
Notes: "A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-238) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : toward a sociology of health hazards in daily life; title: Epidemiology : its uses, strengths, and limitations; title: Does the environment cause breast cancer?; title: Electromagnetic fields: the rise and fall of a "pervasive threat"; title: The science and politics of residential radon; title: The controversy over passive smoking : a casualty of the "tobacco wars"; title: Conclusion.