Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement

Phil Brown

July, 2007
Cloth, 392 pages, 12 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-12948-0
$30.50 / £18.00

Foreword by Lois Gibbs


Preface: Toxic Exposures and the Challenge of Environmental Health


List of Abbreviations


Acknowledgments


1. Citizen-Science Alliances and Health Social Movements: Contested Illnesses and Challenges to the Dominant Epidemiological Paradigm


2. Breast Cancer: A Powerful Movement and a Struggle for Science


3. Asthma, Environmental Factors, and Environmental Justice


4. Gulf War-Related Illnesses and the Hunt for Causation: The "Stress of War" Versus the "Dirty Battlefield"


5. Similarities and Differences Among Asthma, Breast Cancer, and Gulf War Illnesses


6. The New Precautionary Approach: A Public Paradigm in Progress


7. Implications of the Contested Illnesses Perspective


8. Conclusion: The Growing Environmental Health Movement


Notes


Bibliography


Index

Related Subjects

• Environmental Sciences

About the Author

Phil Brown is professor of sociology and environmental studies at Brown University. He has been writing about environmental health since the mid-1980s, beginning with No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action, which focused on the Woburn childhood leukemia cluster. Since then he has studied many environmental groups and movements and has collaborated with environmental organizations on research. He is editor of Perspectives in Medical Sociology and co-editor of Social Movements in Health and Illness and the Environment: A Reader in Contested Medicine.

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