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Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement

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Description for Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement Hardback. Drawing on environmental and medical sociology, environmental justice, and social movement studies, this work looks at the ways scientific findings are made available to the public and the changing nature of policy offers a new perspective on health and the environment and the relationship among people, knowledge, power, and authority. Num Pages: 392 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: MBNH2; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 241 x 28. Weight in Grams: 678.
The increase in environmentally induced diseases and the loosening of regulation and safety measures have inspired a massive challenge to established ways of looking at health and the environment. Communities with disease clusters, women facing a growing breast cancer incidence rate, and people of color concerned about the asthma epidemic have become critical of biomedical models that emphasize the role of genetic makeup and individual lifestyle practices. Likewise, scientists have lost patience with their colleagues' and government's failure to adequately address environmental health issues and to safeguard research from corporate manipulation. Focusing specifically on breast cancer, asthma, and Gulf ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231129480
SKU
V9780231129480
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About Phil Brown
Phil Brown is professor of sociology and environmental studies at Brown University. He has been writing about environmental health since the mid-1980s, beginning with No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action, which focused on the Woburn childhood leukemia cluster. Since then he has studied many environmental groups and movements and has collaborated with environmental organizations on research. He ... Read more

Reviews for Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement
Environmental activists, wannabe activists, and folks tired of environmental hazards in their communities will find this a worthwhile guide for action. Library Journal Toxic Exposures does shed light on the intersection of health research, advocacy and policy-making.
Paul D. Blanc Nature Timely and important.
Peder Anker Science A guidebook for those wishing to understand the environmental-health movement.
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