HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT: SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES -- HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT: SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- ETERNAL QUESTIONS AND PRESENT CONCERNS -- ENGAGEMENT OF SOCIAL SCIENTISTS WITH THE TOPICS OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT -- HEALTH -- ENVIRONMENT -- TRACING LINKAGES -- THE SUSTAINABILITY PARADOX -- CHARITY PARADOX -- STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK -- REFERENCES -- PART I. PROBLEM-FRAMING AND DEBATES -- SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC ENGAGEMENT WITH HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT DEBATES: CLASSICAL ROOTS AND CONTEMPORARY SUB DISCIPLINES -- ABSTRACT -- CLASSICAL THEORIES AND CONTEMPORARY INTERPRETATIONS -- Thomas Malthus -- Karl Marx -- Durkheim and Weber -- CHANGES IN THE WORLD SINCE THE "CLASSICISTS" -- Health and Environment in the Context of Globalization -- Population Growth -- Health Issues in the Recent Decades -- Environmental Issues in the Recent Decades -- FROM CLASSICAL SCHOLARS TO MODERN ACADEMIC SUBDISCIPLINES -- Environmental Sociology -- Ecology of Health -- Ecological Sociology -- Environmental Health -- Medical Anthropology -- REFERENCES -- WHY IS SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION ON SERIOUS ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH PROBLEMS NOT EASILY RECOGNIZED IN OUR SOCIETY? -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH SCIENCE -- Current Environment and Health Problems -- Scientific Proof -- Paralysis by Traditional Analysis -- Physical Chemical Hygiene -- 2. SCIENCE AND SOCIETY -- Trial and Retribution -- To Investigate or Not to Investigate: The Mysterious Case of Dendermonde -- To Know and Not to Act -- Mercedes or Health -- 3. THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH -- Biased Expertise -- Smokescreen Evidence: Science and Industry -- The Politics of Expert Judgement: Industry Involvement in the IARC -- Huff J. (2002) -- Alignment according to Huff -- I Rest my Case (at Home) -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

APPENDIX: THE COMPLEXITY OF ENVIRONMENTALLY INDUCED CANCER -- Basic Insights Concerning Carcinogenesis -- Implications of the Fact that Carcinogenesis Rests on Mutations in Several Genes -- Exogenous vs. Endogenous DNA Damage and Mutations -- Genotoxic Agents Can Be Relatively More Efficient at Low Doses -- Subgroups with Higher Susceptibility -- Non-genotoxic Processes and Agents in Carcinogenesis -- REFERENCES -- DEFINITIONAL STRUGGLES, ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENTS AND THE LEVEL OF TRUST: THE SUDBURY SOILS STUDY, 2001-2008 -- ABSTRACT -- 1. THE SUDBURY SOILS STUDY -- 2. DEFINITIONAL STRUGGLES AND SOCIAL GAMES -- 3. DEMOCRATIC ISSUES AND TRUSTING THE SYSTEM -- 4. THE SOCIAL DYNAMIC OF RISK DEFINITIONS -- 5. DEREGULATION, COMPANIES AND INEQUALITIES -- REFERENCES -- THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PERCEPTIONS OF THE GLOBAL HEALTH CRISIS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- MESSY PROBLEMS AND NARRATIVE ANALYSIS -- THE SCOPE OF POLICY CONFLICT ABOUT THE GLOBAL HEALTH CRISIS -- Choice and Health -- The Setting -- The Villains -- The Heroes -- Health Is a Human Right: An Egalitarian Story -- The Setting -- The Villains -- The Heroes -- Stewardship and Health: A Hierarchical Story -- The Setting -- The Villains -- The Heroes -- THE STRUCTURE OF POLICY CONFLICT: IRREDUCIBLE PLURALITY AND CONFLICT -- THE IMPACT OF POLICY CONFLICT -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- PART II. SOCIAL SCIENCES PERSPECTIVES -- FROM ENVIRONMENTAL TO ECOLOGICAL SOCIOLOGY: IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL SOCIOLOGY -- THE CURRENT STATE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY -- THREE BARRIERS TO PARADIGM CHANGE AND THE DEVELOPMENTS THAT REMOVED THEM -- CONCEPTUALIZING ECOLOGICAL SOCIOLOGY -- ECOLOGICAL SOCIOLOGY AND HEALTH -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.

BIOMEDICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES: THE EXAMPLE OF CONFRONTING BREAST CANCER -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE BIOMEDICAL PARADIGM -- BRINGING THE ENVIRONMENT INTO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN HEALTH: CHALLENGING THE BIOMEDICAL PARADIGM -- BREAST CANCER CHARITY AND ADVOCACY: BIOMEDICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MODELS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- THE ADHD REGIME AND NEURO-CHEMICAL SELVES IN WHOLE-SYSTEMS. A SCIENCE STUDIES PERSPECTIVE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- I. THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT NORMALCY AND PATHOLOGY -- a. ADHD and the Adaptation of the Human Organism to its Environment -- b. How Conceptions of the Normal and the Pathological Are Constructed -- i. Knowledge Production -- ii. Translating between Different Approaches -- c. Genealogy as Reopening -- II. ADHD BETWEEN LAY AND EXPERT DISCOURSES -- a. Layman and Expert -- b. Laymen-Expert and Molar-Molecular Perceptions -- III. FACTORS, ENVIRONMENT AND SYSTEMS -- a. Causal, Developmental, Secondary Causality -- b. Negotiating Patient Careers between Organism, Natural and Cultural Environment -- c. Intervening in Whole-Systems: The Neuro-chemical Self, the Whole System, and the Importance of Environment -- IV. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- THE ORIENTALIST LENS AND TRADITIONAL MEDICINE: CIRCUMVENTING WESTERN BIASES IN STUDYING TRADITIONAL MEDICINES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- ORIENTALISM -- ORIENTALISM, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT -- METHODOLOGY -- DECONSTRUCTING ORIENTALIST ASSUMPTION -- CHALLENGING NOTION OF BACKWARDNESS -- THE LOSS OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE -- BUYING HEALTH IN UZBEKISTAN AND TAJIKISTAN -- WESTERN SCIENCE AS ESSENTIALISED AND UNIVERSAL CRITERIA -- SOCIAL AND CULTURAL LIVES OF NATURALLY DERIVED TRADITIONAL REMEDIES -- TENDENCY TO STUDY THE EXOTIC -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- PART III. POLICY AND SOCIETY: IN SEARCH OF SOLUTIONS.

SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC NAVIGATION IN ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH COMPLEXITY -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. WHAT IS COMPLEXITY? -- Complexity Theory -- The Complexity of Climate Change -- The Complexity of Environment and Health -- 2. COMPLEXITY SCIENCE -- Complexity and Objectivity -- Complexity and Reduction -- 3. HOW CAN WE DEAL WITH COMPLEXITY? -- Science and Policy -- Social Involvement -- Post-Normal Science -- Opening up versus Expert Closure -- Precautionary Principle -- Right to Know versus Fear of Panic -- 4. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT POLICIES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- LEGISLATION WITHIN EU -- PRINCIPLES OF EUROPEAN POLICIES IN RELATION TO HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT -- INTEGRATING HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT AT THE POLICY LEVEL -- EUROPEAN INTEREST AND LOBBYING GROUPS -- ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ISSUES ON THE EU AGENDA -- ENVIRONNEMENTAL CONTAMINANTS, CHEMICALS AND POLLUTION -- RESEARCH IN EUROPE -- CONFLICTING INTERESTS -- Dutch Example 1: Air Quality -- Dutch Case 2: Illegal Timber Trade -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ORGANIZING IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD: THE EMERGENCE OF A GLOBAL ANTI-TOXICS MOVEMENT AND ITS POLITICAL, LEGAL AND ECONOMIC CHALLENGES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY, GLOBALIZATION, AND THE SPREAD OF TOXICS -- Globalization's Link to Global Chemical Production and Consumption -- TRANS-NATIONALIZATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH MOVEMENTS -- OBSTACLES TO GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ORGANIZING -- Political Obstacles -- Legal Obstacles -- Economic Obstacles -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CONCLUSIONS ON SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- BROADENING THE VIEW ON ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH -- OBSTACLES TO A BETTER VIEW ON ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH ISSUES -- PROBLEM-SOLVING.

THE ROLE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE -- FUTURE PERSPECTIVES -- ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- THE EDITORS -- THE CONTRIBUTORS -- AKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX.