Toxic exposures contested illnesses and the environmental health movement
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Columbia University Press
c2007
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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