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Author: Phil Brown
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0231129483
Category: Medical

Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement

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. Download Toxic Exposures medical books for free.
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 practices. Likewise, scientists have lost patience with their colleagues' and government's failure to adequately address environmental health issues and to safeguard research from corporate manipulation.Focusing specifically on breast cancer, asthma, and Gulf War-related health conditions-"contested illnesses Get Toxic Exposures our bestseller medical books.

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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 practices Focusing specifically on breast cancer, asthma, and Gulf War-related health conditions-"contested illnesses

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