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Toxic exposures : contested illnesses and the environmental health movement
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Toxic exposures : contested illnesses and the environmental health movement

Author: Phil Brown
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007.
Edition/Format: Book : English
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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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