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476

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Illness and the Environment: A Reader in Contested Medicine
August 1, 2000, New York University Press
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Illness and the Environment: A Reader in Contested Medicine
August 1, 2000, New York University Press
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Illness and the environment: a reader in contested medicine
2000, New York University Press
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Table of Contents

Pt. 1. Setting the stage. Knowledge, citizens, and organizations : an overview of environments, diseases, and social conflict
pt. 2. Environments and diseases : professional boundaries and the problem of knowing. Limits of epidemiology
Physicians' knowledge, attitudes, and practice regarding environmental health hazards
Environmental illness as a practical epistemology and a source of professional confusion
pt. 3. Measurement disputes and health policy. Environmental endocrine hypothesis and public policy
Who cares if the rat dies? Rodents, risks, and humans in the science of food safety
Threshold limit values : historical perspectives and current practice
Threshold limit values in the 1990s and beyond : a follow-up
pt. 4. Toxins in the workplace. An axe to grind : class relations and silicosis in a 19th-century factory
From dust to dust : the birth and re-birth of national concern about silicosis
Farmworker and farmer perceptions of farmworker agricultural chemical exposure in North Carolina
Competing conceptions of safety : high-risk workers or high-risk work?
pt. 5. Toxins in the community. Pollution, politics, and uncertainty : environmental epidemiology in north-east England
Round and round it goes : the epidemiology of childhood lead poisoning, 1950-1990
Lead contamination in the 1990s and beyond : a follow-up
Suffering, legitimacy, and healing : the Bhopal case, critical events
pt. 6. Living with environments and contested diseases. Time
A cancer death
Notes from a human canary
pt. 7. Citizen responses to contested medicine. Reframing endometriosis : from "career woman's disease" to environment/body connections
Popular epidemiology and toxic waste contamination : lay and professional ways of knowing
Environmental movements and expert knowledge : evidence for a new populism
pt. 8. Setting the environmental health agenda. Competing paradigms in the assessment of latent disorders : the case of Agent Orange
Environmental politics and science : the case of PBB contamination in Michigan
Environmental health research : setting an agenda by spinning our wheels or climbing the mountain?

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

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New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
RA566 .I45 2000, RA566.I45 2000, RA 566 I45 2000

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Pagination
xiv, 476 p. ;
Number of pages
476

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Open Library
OL16987986M
Internet Archive
illnessenvironme0000unse
ISBN 10
0814747280, 0814747299
LCCN
00036125
OCLC/WorldCat
43708632
Goodreads
1265708

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