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Toxic exposures : contested illnesses and the environmental health movement /

The increase in environmentally induced diseases and the loosening of regulation and safety measures have inspired a massive challenge to established ways of looking at health and the environment. Communities with disease clusters, women facing a growing breast cancer incidence rate, and people of c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Phil
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.