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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789741003321

Titolo

Contested Illnesses : Citizens, Science, and Health Social Movements / / Phil Brown, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Stephen Zavestoski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

1-283-36969-9

9786613369697

0-520-95042-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 p.)

Disciplina

362.1

Soggetti

Environmental health

Social medicine

Hypersensitivity

Organizations

Health Occupations

Sociology

Disorders of Environmental Origin

Socioeconomic Factors

Population Characteristics

Social Sciences

Diseases

Immune System Diseases

Health Care Economics and Organizations

Health Care

Social Change

Environmental Illness

Consumer Organizations

Environmental Health

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List Of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Environmental Justice And Contested Illnesses -- 2. Embodied Health Movements -- 3. Qualitative Approaches In Environmental Health Research -- 4. Getting Into The Field: New Approaches To Research Methods -- 5. Environmental Justice And The Precautionary Principle: Air Toxics Exposures And Health Risks Among Schoolchildren In Los Angeles -- 6. A Narrowing Gulf Of Difference? Disputes And Discoveries In The Study Of Gulf War-Related Illnesses -- 7. The Health Politics Of Asthma: Environmental Justice And Collective Illness Experience -- 8. Pollution Comes Home And Gets Personal: Women's Experience Of Household Chemical Exposure -- 9. The Personal Is Scientific, The Scientific Is Political: The Public Paradigm Of The Environmental Breast Cancer Movement -- 10. School Custodians And Green Cleaners: Labor-Environmental Coalitions And Toxics Reduction -- 11. Labor-Environmental Coalition Formation: Framing And The Right To Know -- 12. The Brown Superfund Research Program: A Multistake holder Partnership Addresses Problems In Contaminated Communities -- 13. Toxic Ignorance And The Right To Know: Biomonitoring Results Communication; A Survey Of Scientists And Study Participants -- 14. Irb Challenges In Community-Based Participatory Research On Human Exposure To Environmental Toxics: A Case Study -- 15. Conclusion -- Appendix: Contested Illnesses Research Group's Nuts And Bolts And Lessons Learned -- References -- List Of Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The politics and science of health and disease remain contested terrain among scientists, health practitioners, policy makers, industry, communities, and the public. Stakeholders in disputes about illnesses or conditions disagree over their fundamental causes as well as how they should be treated and prevented. This thought-provoking book crosses disciplinary boundaries by engaging with both public health policy and social science, asserting that science, activism, and policy are not separate issues and showing how the contribution of environmental factors in disease is often overlooked.