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Author Brown, Phil.

Title Toxic exposures : contested illnesses and the environmental health movement / Phil Brown.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2007]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  615.902 B879T    Check Shelf
Description xxxiv, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-337) and index.
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.
Subject Environmentally induced diseases.
Asthma -- Etiology.
Breast -- Cancer -- Etiology.
Persian Gulf syndrome -- Etiology.
Environmental Exposure -- adverse effects.
Asthma -- etiology.
Breast Neoplasms -- etiology.
Environmental Health -- trends.
Persian Gulf Syndrome -- etiology.
Public Policy.
ISBN 9780231129480 cloth alkaline paper
0231129483 cloth alkaline paper
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