Illness and the environment : a reader in contested medicine / edited by Steve Kroll-Smith, Phil Brown, and Valerie J. Gunter.
- Date:
- [2000], ©2000
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Publication/Creation
New York : New York University Press, [2000], ©2000.
Physical description
xiv, 476 pages ; 26 cm
Contents
Pt. 1. Setting the stage. Knowledge, citizens, and organizations : an overview of environments, diseases, and social conflict -- pt. 2. Environments and diseases : professional boundaries and the problem of knowing. Limits of epidemiology -- Physicians' knowledge, attitudes, and practice regarding environmental health hazards -- Environmental illness as a practical epistemology and a source of professional confusion -- pt. 3. Measurement disputes and health policy. Environmental endocrine hypothesis and public policy -- Who cares if the rat dies? Rodents, risks, and humans in the science of food safety -- Threshold limit values : historical perspectives and current practice -- Threshold limit values in the 1990s and beyond : a follow-up -- pt. 4. Toxins in the workplace. An axe to grind : class relations and silicosis in a 19th-century factory -- From dust to dust : the birth and re-birth of national concern about silicosis -- Farmworker and farmer perceptions of farmworker agricultural chemical exposure in North Carolina -- Competing conceptions of safety : high-risk workers or high-risk work? -- pt. 5. Toxins in the community. Pollution, politics, and uncertainty : environmental epidemiology in north-east England -- Round and round it goes : the epidemiology of childhood lead poisoning, 1950-1990 -- Lead contamination in the 1990s and beyond : a follow-up -- Suffering, legitimacy, and healing : the Bhopal case, critical events
pt. 6. Living with environments and contested diseases. Time -- A cancer death -- Notes from a human canary -- pt. 7. Citizen responses to contested medicine. Reframing endometriosis : from "career woman's disease" to environment/body connections -- Popular epidemiology and toxic waste contamination : lay and professional ways of knowing -- Environmental movements and expert knowledge : evidence for a new populism -- pt. 8. Setting the environmental health agenda. Competing paradigms in the assessment of latent disorders : the case of Agent Orange -- Environmental politics and science : the case of PBB contamination in Michigan -- Environmental health research : setting an agenda by spinning our wheels or climbing the mountain?
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Location Status Medical CollectionWA30.5 2000I29Open shelves
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- 0814747280
- 0814747299