Toxic exposures contested illnesses and the environmental health movement /

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Bibliografiset tiedot
Päätekijä: Brown, Phil
Yhteisötekijä: ebrary, Inc
Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen E-kirja
Kieli:englanti
Julkaistu: New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
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Sisällysluettelo:
  • 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.