| Description |
xxxiv, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-337) and index. |
| 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. |
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Environmentally induced diseases.
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Environmentally induced diseases. |
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Asthma -- Etiology.
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Asthma -- Etiology. |
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Breast -- Cancer -- Etiology.
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Breast -- Cancer -- Etiology. |
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Persian Gulf syndrome -- Etiology.
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Persian Gulf syndrome. |
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Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation. |
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Breast. |
| ISBN |
9780231129480 cloth alkaline paper |
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0231129483 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780231503259 ebook |
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0231503253 ebook |
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