LEADER 04634nam 22006854a 450 001 9910777922703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-79624-0 010 $a9786612796241 010 $a0-231-50325-3 024 7 $a10.7312/brow12948 035 $a(CKB)1000000000771872 035 $a(EBL)908262 035 $a(OCoLC)826476680 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000443455 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12155371 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000443455 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10454513 035 $a(PQKB)10489379 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908262 035 $a(DE-B1597)458694 035 $a(OCoLC)680628364 035 $a(OCoLC)979904163 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231503259 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908262 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10419602 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL279624 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000771872 100 $a20061016d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aToxic exposures$b[electronic resource] $econtested illnesses and the environmental health movement /$fPhil Brown 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (393 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-12948-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [311]-337) and index. 327 $aCitizen-science alliances and health social movements: contested illnesses and challenges to the dominant epidemiological paradigm -- Breast cancer: a powerful movement and a struggle for science -- Asthma, environmental factors, and environmental justice -- Gulf War-related illnesses and the hunt for causation: the "stress of war" vs. the "dirty battlefield" -- Similarities and differences among asthma, breast cancer, and Gulf War illnesses -- The new precautionary approach: a public paradigm in progress -- Implications of the contested illnesses perspective -- Conclusion: the growing environmental health movement. 330 $aThe increase in environmentally induced diseases and the loosening of regulation and safety measures have inspired a massive challenge to established ways of looking at health and the environment. Communities with disease clusters, women facing a growing breast cancer incidence rate, and people of color concerned about the asthma epidemic have become critical of biomedical models that emphasize the role of genetic makeup and individual lifestyle practices. Likewise, scientists have lost patience with their colleagues' and government's failure to adequately address environmental health issues and to safeguard research from corporate manipulation.Focusing specifically on breast cancer, asthma, and Gulf War-related health conditions-"contested illnesses" that have generated intense debate in the medical and political communities-Phil Brown shows how these concerns have launched an environmental health movement that has revolutionized scientific thinking and policy. Before the last three decades of widespread activism regarding toxic exposures, people had little opportunity to get information. Few sympathetic professionals were available, the scientific knowledge base was weak, government agencies were largely unprepared, laypeople were not considered bearers of useful knowledge, and ordinary people lacked their own resources for discovery and action.Brown argues that organized social movements are crucial in recognizing and acting to combat environmental diseases. His book draws on environmental and medical sociology, environmental justice, environmental health science, and social movement studies to show how citizen-science alliances have fought to overturn dominant epidemiological paradigms. His probing look at the ways scientific findings are made available to the public and the changing nature of policy offers a new perspective on health and the environment and the relationship among people, knowledge, power, and authority. 606 $aEnvironmentally induced diseases 606 $aAsthma$xEtiology 606 $aBreast$xCancer$xEtiology 606 $aPersian Gulf syndrome$xEtiology 615 0$aEnvironmentally induced diseases. 615 0$aAsthma$xEtiology. 615 0$aBreast$xCancer$xEtiology. 615 0$aPersian Gulf syndrome$xEtiology. 676 $a615.9/02 700 $aBrown$b Phil$01509693 701 $aGibbs$b Lois$0270463 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777922703321 996 $aToxic exposures$93741777 997 $aUNINA