Hyping health risks : environmental hazards in daily life and the science of epidemiology / Geoffrey C. Kabat.

New York : Columbia University Press, [2008], ©2008.

xvi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.

Introduction: toward a sociology of health hazards in daily life -- Epidemiology: its uses, strengths, and limitations -- Does the environment cause breast cancer? -- Electromagnetic fields: the rise and fall of a "pervasive threat" -- The science and politics of residential radon -- The controversy over passive smoking: a casualty of the "tobacco wars" -- Conclusion.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-238) and index.