02844nam 2200637Ia 450 991082033490332120200520144314.01-299-44445-81-4422-2138-0(CKB)2550000001018479(EBL)1163743(SSID)ssj0000860768(PQKBManifestationID)12383304(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860768(PQKBWorkID)10898236(PQKB)11534360(Au-PeEL)EBL1163743(CaPaEBR)ebr10685802(CaONFJC)MIL475695(OCoLC)839305267(MiAaPQ)EBC1163743(MiAaPQ)EBC30666638(Au-PeEL)EBL30666638(EXLCZ)99255000000101847920120928d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRise of the U.S. environmental health movement /Kate Davies1st ed.Lanham Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.c20131 online resource (268 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4422-2137-2 1-4422-2245-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Title Page; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Historical and Cultural Roots; The European Ancestry of Environmental Health; Early Environmental Public Health in the United States; Environmentalism and Economic Growth; The Birth of the U.S. Environmental Health Movement; The Contemporary Movement; Organizations and Issues; Making Environmental Issues Personal; Precaution and the Limitationsof Science; Environmental Justice and the Right to a Healthy Environment; Changing Economics, the Markets, and Business; Conclusion and Next Steps: Strategies for Social ChangeA Chronology of Key EventsSelected Environmental Health Resources; Index; About the AuthorThis is the first book to offer a comprehensive examination of the Environmental Health Movement, which unlike many parts of the environmental movement, focuses on ways toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents in the environmental effect human health and wellbeing.Environmental healthUnited StatesHistoryPollutionEnvironmental aspectsUnited StatesEnvironmentalismUnited StatesHistoryEnvironmental healthHistory.PollutionEnvironmental aspectsEnvironmentalismHistory.613.1Davies Kate1956-1605819MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820334903321Rise of the U.S. environmental health movement3931272UNINA