Health and environment
Subtitle: social science perspectives
By: [edited by] Helen Kopnina, Hans Keune
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Hauppauge, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781608762163
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Social scientific engagement with health and environment debates : classical roots and contemporary sub disciplines / by Helen Kopnina and Hans Keune; title: Why is scientific information on serious environment and health problems not easily recognized in our society? / Hans Keune and Nik Van Larebeke; title: Definitional struggles, environmental risk assessments and the level of trust : The Sudbury Soils Study, 2001-2008 / François Dépelteau; title: The environment and the perceptions of the global health crisis / Steven Ney; title: From environmental to ecological sociology : implications for health / Gary Bowden; title: Biomedical and environmental health perspectives : the example of confronting breast cancer / Lori Baralt; title: The ADHD regime and neuro-chemical selves in whole systems : a science studies perspective / Alexander Stingl; title: The Orientalist lens and traditional medicine : circumventing Western biases in studying traditional medicines / Barbara Potrata and Anzurat Akobirshoeva; title: Social scientific navigation in environment and health complexity / Hans Keune, Bert Morrens, and Ilse Loots; title: Health and environment policies in the European Union / Helen Kopnina; title: Environmental health organizing in a globalizing world : the emergence of a global anti-toxics movement and its political, legal and economic challenges / Stephen Zavestoski; title: Conclusions on social scientific perspectives on health and environment / Hans Keune and Helen Kopnina.