Toxic exposures contested illnesses and the environmental health movement
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Toxic exposures contested illnesses and the environmental health movement
Author:
Brown, Phil.
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New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
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xxxiv, 356 p. : ill.
Contents:
Citizen-science alliances and health social movements: contested illnesses and challenges to the dominant epidemiological paradigm -- Breast cancer: a powerful movement and a struggle for science -- Asthma, environmental factors, and environmental justice -- Gulf War-related illnesses and the hunt for causation: the "stress of war" vs. the "dirty battlefield" -- Similarities and differences among asthma, breast cancer, and Gulf War illnesses -- The new precautionary approach: a public paradigm in progress -- Implications of the contested illnesses perspective -- Conclusion: the growing environmental health movement.
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