Toxic exposures : contested illnesses and the environmental health movement / Phil Brown.
By: Brown, Phil
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TextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c2007Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-337) and index.Description: xxxiv, 356 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780231129480 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780231503259 (ebook).Subject(s): Environmentally induced diseases | Asthma -- Etiology | Breast -- Cancer -- Etiology | Persian Gulf syndrome -- Etiology | Breast neoplasms -- Etiology | Environmental healthDDC classification: 615.9/02 Online resources: Table of contents | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| 615.9 M620 Environmental poisons in our food / | 615.9 N293 Introduction to chemical exposure and risk assessment / | 615.9 St27 Lead is a silent hazard / | 615.902 B814 2007 Toxic exposures : contested illnesses and the environmental health movement / | 615.902 G914 2009 Chasing molecules : poisonous products, human health, and the promise of green chemistry / | 615.902 K111 2008 Hyping health risks : environmental hazards in daily life and the science of epidemiology / | 615.902 Sm644 2009 Slow death by rubber duck : the secret danger of everyday things / |
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" versus 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.
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