Toxic exposures
Brown, Phil.
Toxic exposures contested illnesses and the environmental health movement / [electronic resource] : Phil Brown. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2007. - xxxiv, 356 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-337) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA720245 bnb
DNLM Uk
Environmentally induced diseases.
Asthma--Etiology.
Breast--Cancer--Etiology.
Persian Gulf syndrome--Etiology.
Electronic books.
RB152.5 / .B76 2007eb
615.9/02
Toxic exposures contested illnesses and the environmental health movement / [electronic resource] : Phil Brown. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2007. - xxxiv, 356 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-337) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA720245 bnb
DNLM Uk
Environmentally induced diseases.
Asthma--Etiology.
Breast--Cancer--Etiology.
Persian Gulf syndrome--Etiology.
Electronic books.
RB152.5 / .B76 2007eb
615.9/02