1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996396189303316

Titolo

The Mid-wives just petition, or, A complaint of divers good gentlewomen of that faculty [[electronic resource] ] : shewing to the whole Christian world their just cause of their sufferings in these distracted times, for their want of trading : vvhich said complaint they tendered to the House on Monday last, being the 23 of Ian. 1643 : with some other notes worthy of observation

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Printed at London, : [s.n.], 1643

Descrizione fisica

[8] p

Soggetti

Midwives - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Thomason Collection, British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0158



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777569603321

Autore

Corburn Jason

Titolo

Street science : community knowledge and environmental health justice / / Jason Corburn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, 2005

ISBN

1-282-09717-2

9786612097171

0-262-27080-3

1-4237-4700-3

Descrizione fisica

271 p. : ill

Collana

Urban and industrial environments

Disciplina

362.196/98

Soggetti

Environmental health - Public opinion

Environmental health - Citizen participation

Environmental policy - Citizen participation

Environmental justice

Communities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-256) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

When environmental health problems arise in a community, policymakers must be able to reconcile the first-hand experience of local residents with recommendations by scientists. In this highly original look at environmental health policymaking, Jason Corburn shows the ways that local knowledge can be combined with professional techniques to achieve better solutions for environmental health problems. He traces the efforts of a low-income community in Brooklyn to deal with environmental health problems in its midst and offers a framework for understanding "street science"--decision making that draws on community knowledge and contributes to environmental justice.Like many other low-income urban communities, the Greenpoint/Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn suffers more than its share of environmental problems, with a concentration of polluting facilities and elevated levels of localized air pollutants.



Corburn looks at four instances of street science in Greenpoint/Williamsburg, where community members and professionals combined forces to address the risks from subsistence fishing from the polluted East River, the asthma epidemic in the Latino community, childhood lead poisoning, and local sources of air pollution. These episodes highlight both the successes and the limits of street science and demonstrate ways residents can establish their own credibility when working with scientists. Street science, Corburn argues, does not devalue science; it revalues other kinds of information and democratizes the inquiry and decision making processes.