Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Part One - Setting the Stage: Introduction, Theory, Methods -- 1 - Introduction: Environmental Justice and Contested Illnesses -- 2 - Embodied Health Movements -- 3 - Qualitative Approaches in Environmental Health Research -- 4 - Getting into the Field: New Approaches to Research Methods -- 5 - Environmental Justice and the Precautionary Principle: Air Toxics Exposures and Health Risks among Schoolchildren in Los Angeles -- Part Two - Working in the Environmental Health Field: Ethnographic Studies -- 6 - A Narrowing Gulf of Difference? Disputes and Discoveries in the Study of Gulf War-Related Illnesses -- 7 - The Health Politics of Asthma: Environmental Justice and Collective Illness Experience -- 8 - Pollution Comes Home and Gets Personal: Women's Experience of Household Chemical Exposure -- 9 - The Personal is Scientific, the Scientific is Political: The Public Paradigm of the Environmental Breast Cancer Movement -- 10 - School Custodians and Green Cleaners: Labor-Environmental Coalitions and Toxics Reduction -- 11 - Labor-Environmental Coalition Formation: Framing and the Right to Know -- 12 - The Brown Superfund Research Program: A Multistakeholder Partnership Addresses Problems in Contaminated Communities -- Part Three - Ethical Considerations -- 13 - Toxic Ignorance and the Right to Know: Biomonitoring Results Communication -- A Survey of Scientists and Study Participants -- 14 - IRB Challenges in Community-Based Participatory Research on Human Exposure to Environmental Toxics: A Case Study -- 15 - Conclusion -- Appendix - Contested Illnesses Research Group's Nuts and Bolts and Lessons Learned -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index -- For additional appendixes, see www.ucpress.edu/go/contestedillnesses.