Toxic exposures : contested illnesses and the environmental health movement /

Show other versions (1)

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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brown, Phil
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Environmentally induced diseases.
Asthma > Etiology.
Breast > Cancer > Etiology.
Persian Gulf syndrome > Etiology.
Environmental Exposure > adverse effects
Asthma > etiology
Breast Neoplasms > etiology
Environmental Health > trends
Persian Gulf Syndrome > etiology
Public Policy
Maladies de l'environnement.
Asthme > Étiologie.
Sein > Cancer > Étiologie.
Syndrome de la guerre du Golfe > Étiologie.
MEDICAL > Toxicology.
MEDICAL > General.
Asthma > Etiology
Breast > Cancer > Etiology
Environmentally induced diseases
Golfkrieg-Syndrom
Umweltkrankheit
Kontroverse
Umweltbelastung
Gesundheitsgefährdung
Bürgerrechtsbewegung
Einflussnahme
Brustkrebs
Bronchialasthma
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

Similar Items