TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Phil
TI  - Toxic exposures: contested illnesses and the environmental health movement 
SN  - 9780231129480 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - RB152.5 .B76 2007
U1  - 615.9/02 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Environmentally induced diseases
KW  - Asthma
KW  - Etiology
KW  - Breast
KW  - Cancer
KW  - Persian Gulf syndrome
N1  - 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" 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip073/2006034124.html
ER  -