Illness and the environment
Subtitle: a reader in contested medicine
By: edited by Steve Kroll-Smith, Phil Brown, and Valerie J. Gunter
Contributors: Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen, 1947-; Brown, Phil; Gunter, Valerie J. 1961-
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 476
Subjects: Environmental health -- Public opinion; Environmental health -- Political aspects; Environmental health -- Government policy; Environmentally induced diseases -- Public opinion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Setting the stage. Knowledge, citizens, and organizations : an overview of environments, diseases, and social conflict; title: pt. 2. Environments and diseases : professional boundaries and the problem of knowing. Limits of epidemiology; title: Physicians' knowledge, attitudes, and practice regarding environmental health hazards; title: Environmental illness as a practical epistemology and a source of professional confusion; title: pt. 3. Measurement disputes and health policy. Environmental endocrine hypothesis and public policy; title: Who cares if the rat dies? Rodents, risks, and humans in the science of food safety; title: Threshold limit values : historical perspectives and current practice; title: Threshold limit values in the 1990s and beyond : a follow-up; title: pt. 4. Toxins in the workplace. An axe to grind : class relations and silicosis in a 19th-century factory; title: From dust to dust : the birth and re-birth of national concern about silicosis; title: Farmworker and farmer perceptions of farmworker agricultural chemical exposure in North Carolina; title: Competing conceptions of safety : high-risk workers or high-risk work?; title: pt. 5. Toxins in the community. Pollution, politics, and uncertainty : environmental epidemiology in north-east England; title: Round and round it goes : the epidemiology of childhood lead poisoning, 1950-1990; title: Lead contamination in the 1990s and beyond : a follow-up; title: Suffering, legitimacy, and healing : the Bhopal case, critical events; title: pt. 6. Living with environments and contested diseases. Time; title: A cancer death; title: Notes from a human canary; title: pt. 7. Citizen responses to contested medicine. Reframing endometriosis : from "career woman's disease" to environment/body connections; title: Popular epidemiology and toxic waste contamination : lay and professional ways of knowing; title: Environmental movements and expert knowledge : evidence for a new populism; title: pt. 8. Setting the environmental health agenda. Competing paradigms in the assessment of latent disorders : the case of Agent Orange; title: Environmental politics and science : the case of PBB contamination in Michigan; title: Environmental health research : setting an agenda by spinning our wheels or climbing the mountain?