Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement

by Phil Brown

Book Overview

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: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"