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

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [311]-337) and index.
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LCCN 2006034124
ISBN9780231129480 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0231129483 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780231503259 (ebook)
ISBN0231503253 (ebook)

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