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• Title:Toxic exposures : contested illnesses and the environmental health movement / Phil Brown.
  
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• Author/Creator:Brown, Phil.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WA30.5 .B878 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Environmentally induced diseases.
  Asthma--Etiology.
  Breast--Cancer--Etiology.
  Persian Gulf syndrome--Etiology.
  
• Medical Subjects: Environmental Exposure--adverse effects.
  Asthma--etiology.
  Breast Neoplasms--etiology.
  Environmental Health--trends.
  Persian Gulf Syndrome--etiology.
  Public Policy.
  
• Description:xxxiv, 356 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-337) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780231129480 (cloth : alk. paper)
  0231129483 (cloth : alk. paper)
  9780231503259 (ebook)
  0231503253 (ebook)
  
• Contents:Preface : toxic exposures and the challenge of environmental health
  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. new precautionary approach : a public paradigm in progress
  7. Implications of the contested illnesses perspective
  8. Conclusion : the growing environmental health movement.