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Healthy people in a healthy environment : environmental impacts on health : better understanding for better protection / [European Commission].

Environment and man

x, 166 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Health and the environment / general editors, John Lenihan and William W. Fletcher.

Environmental sciences

Physiology, environment, and man : based on a symposium conducted by the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, August, 1966 / edited by Douglas H.K. Lee and David Minard.

Unhealthy places : the ecology of risk in the urban landscape / Kevin M. Fitzpatrick and Mark LaGory.

Climate change and society : sociological perspectives / edited by Riley E. Dunlap and Robert J. Brulle, Report of the American Sociological Association's Task Force on Sociology and Global Climate Change.

<p>A world awash in little understood chemicals tragically harms adults and children alike. Laws keep health agencies in the dark about toxicants, slow, well motivated research hampers protections, and strenuous vested opposition exacerbates the harm. How science is used in the tort law can facilitate or frustrate redress of harm. This book recommends better approaches. -- Provided by publisher.</p>

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Tragic failures : how and why we are harmed by toxic chemicals / Carl F. Cranor.

xxiv, 407 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Conservation medicine : ecological health in practice / edited by A. Alonso Aguirre [and others].

<p>"What is public health? To some, it is about the infrastructure for health - drains, water, food, housing. These require engineering and expert management. To others, it's about the State using medicine or health education to prevent the public harming itself through poor lifestyles. This book, part historical, part prospective, argues that public health needs an overhaul. It should return to and modernize itself around ecological principles. Ecological public health thinking addresses what are described as four levels of existence: the material, biological, social and cognitive worlds. The long tradition of public health has always been reactive, responding to and transforming the relationship between people, their circumstances and the biological world of nature and bodies. The authors show how twenty-first century public health is being shaped by a number of long-term transitions, some long recognized, others not. These transitions are demographic, epidemiological, urban, energy, economic, nutrition, biological, cultural and democracy itself. Facing them all is required if the health of people and the planet are to be integrated. Ecological public health thinking, the authors argue, has been marginalized partly because it has lacked clear analysis, and partly because of the scale and complexity of the issues which need to be addressed. Public health thinking has partly lost its way because it has been subsumed into the problems rather than championing solutions. Often linked to the State, it has adapted to consumerism rather than championing citizenship. Returning to ecological public health requires stronger and more daring combinations of interdisciplinary work, movements and professions, and a reinvigoration of institutional purpose"--Provided by publisher.</p>

xxii, 409 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Ecological public health : reshaping the conditions for good health / Geof Rayner and Tim Lang.

Biologists in search of material : an interim report on the work of the Pioneer Health Centre, Peckham / [edited by G. Scott Williamson and H. Innes Pearse].

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Healthy people in a healthy environment : environmental impacts on health : better understanding for better protection / [European Commission].

Health and the environment / general editors, John Lenihan and William W. Fletcher.

Physiology, environment, and man : based on a symposium conducted by the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, August, 1966 / edited by Douglas H.K. Lee and David Minard.

Unhealthy places : the ecology of risk in the urban landscape / Kevin M. Fitzpatrick and Mark LaGory.

Climate change and society : sociological perspectives / edited by Riley E. Dunlap and Robert J. Brulle, Report of the American Sociological Association's Task Force on Sociology and Global Climate Change.

Tragic failures : how and why we are harmed by toxic chemicals / Carl F. Cranor.

Conservation medicine : ecological health in practice / edited by A. Alonso Aguirre [and others].

Ecological public health : reshaping the conditions for good health / Geof Rayner and Tim Lang.

Biologists in search of material : an interim report on the work of the Pioneer Health Centre, Peckham / [edited by G. Scott Williamson and H. Innes Pearse].

Symposium on environmental health / edited by Frederick W. Oehme, Comparartive Toxicology Laboratory, Kansas State University.

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Healthy people in a healthy environment : environmental impacts on health : better understanding for better protection / [European Commission].

Health and the environment / general editors, John Lenihan and William W. Fletcher.

Physiology, environment, and man : based on a symposium conducted by the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, August, 1966 / edited by Douglas H.K. Lee and David Minard.

Unhealthy places : the ecology of risk in the urban landscape / Kevin M. Fitzpatrick and Mark LaGory.

Climate change and society : sociological perspectives / edited by Riley E. Dunlap and Robert J. Brulle, Report of the American Sociological Association's Task Force on Sociology and Global Climate Change.

Tragic failures : how and why we are harmed by toxic chemicals / Carl F. Cranor.

Conservation medicine : ecological health in practice / edited by A. Alonso Aguirre [and others].

Ecological public health : reshaping the conditions for good health / Geof Rayner and Tim Lang.

Biologists in search of material : an interim report on the work of the Pioneer Health Centre, Peckham / [edited by G. Scott Williamson and H. Innes Pearse].

Symposium on environmental health / edited by Frederick W. Oehme, Comparartive Toxicology Laboratory, Kansas State University.

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