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

• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (342 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.1
• Soggetto topico: Consumer Organizations; Environmental health; Environmental Health; Environmental Illness; Social Change; Social medicine; Hypersensitivity; Organizations; Health Occupations; Sociology; Disorders of Environmental Origin; Socioeconomic Factors; Population Characteristics; Social Sciences; Diseases; Immune System Diseases; Disciplines and Occupations; Health Care Economics and Organizations; Health Care; Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena; Public Health; Health & Biological Sciences
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): BrownPhil; Morello-FroschRachel; ZavestoskiStephen
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- 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 Multistakeholder 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Contested Illnesses
• ISBN: 1-283-36969-9; 9786613369697; 0-520-95042-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461470103321
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