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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Phil Brown |
| ISBN: | 9780231129480 0231129483 9780231503259 0231503253 |
| OCLC Number: | 73927166 |
| Description: | xxxiv, 356 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Foreword / Lois Gibbs -- Preface : Toxic exposures and the challenge of environmental health -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Citizen-science alliances and health social movements : contested illnesses and challenges to the dominant epidemiological paradigm -- 2. Breast cancer : a powerful movement and a struggle for science -- 3. Asthma, environmental factors, and environmental justice -- 4. Gulf War-related illnesses and the hunt for causation : the "stress of war" versus the "dirty battlefield" -- 5. Similarities and differences among asthma, breast cancer, and Gulf War illnesses -- 6. The new precautionary approach : a public paradigm in progress -- 7. Implications of the contested illnesses perspective -- 8. Conclusion : the growing environmental health movement -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Responsibility: | Phil Brown. |
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