Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement

by Phil Brown

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The 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0231129483

ISBN13:9780231129480

Release Date:June 2007

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Length:392 Pages

Weight:1.50 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Administration & Medicine Economics Administration & Policy Breast Cancer Cancer Earth Sciences Environment Environmental Science Environmental Studies Epidemiology General

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