Toxic exposures : contested illnesses and the environmental health movement / Phil Brown.

New York ; Chichester, West Sussex : Columbia University Press, [2007], ©2007.

xxxiv, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-337) and index.

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.