Table of Contents: Toxic exposures

Main Author:	Brown, Phil.
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
Subjects:	Environmentally induced diseases. Asthma > Etiology. Breast > Cancer > Etiology. Persian Gulf syndrome > Etiology.
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10419602

Table of Contents:

Citizen-science alliances and health social movements: contested illnesses and challenges to the dominant epidemiological paradigm
Breast cancer: a powerful movement and a struggle for science
Asthma, environmental factors, and environmental justice
Gulf War-related illnesses and the hunt for causation: the "stress of war" vs. the "dirty battlefield"
Similarities and differences among asthma, breast cancer, and Gulf War illnesses
The new precautionary approach: a public paradigm in progress
Implications of the contested illnesses perspective
Conclusion: the growing environmental health movement.