The rise of the U.S. environmental health movement /

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This is the first book to offer a comprehensive examination of the Environmental Health Movement, which unlike many parts of the environmental movement, focuses on ways toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents in the environmental effect human health and wellbeing.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davies, Kate, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, [2013]
Temas:
Environmental health > United States > History.
Pollution > United States.
Environmentalism > United States > History.
Environmental Health > history
Pollution > États-Unis.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Healthy Living.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
Environmental health.
Environmentalism.
Pollution.
Umweltmedizin
Ökologische Bewegung
United States
United States.
USA
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Historical and Cultural Roots. The European ancestry of environmental health ; Early environmental public health in the United States ; Environmentalism and economic growth ; The birth of the U.S. environmental health movement.
  • The Contemporary Movement. Organizations and issues ; Making environmental issues personal ; Precaution and the limitations of science ; Environmental justice and the right to a healthy environment ; Changing economics, the markets, and business.
  • Conclusion and next steps: strategies for social change.

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