Illness and the Environment

A Reader in Contested Medicine

By: Steve Kroll-Smith (Editor), Philip M. Brown (Editor), Valerie Gunter (Editor)

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Hardcover | 31 August 2000

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In myriad ways, humans have gradually tailored their world to meet immediate material needs. In so doing, we have, in the minds of many, systematically altered a formerly hospitable environment into one more ambiguous in its effect on the human organism. Just as environments have adapted in response to human activity, so too is the human body now, in turn, forced to adapt to these altered conditions. Today, mysterious illnesses, from chronic fatigue to Gulf War Syndrome, meet us at every turn. Yet even as an increasing number of people attribute ailments to environmental problems, the suspected relationships between illness and environment remain unclear.
Illness and the Environment examines how sick people and their allies struggle to achieve public recognition of somatic complaints and disabilities that they contend are related to "manufactured environments." The first of its kind, the anthology considers the political, legal, and medical conflicts arising from these illnesses, and will prove invaluable to researchers, scholars, public policy makers, trial attorneys, and activist organizations.

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Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: Environments and Diseases in a Postnatural World	p. 1
Setting the Stage
Knowledge, Citizens, and Organizations: An Overview of Environments, Diseases, and Social Conflict	p. 9
Environments and Diseases: Professional Boundaries and the Problem of Knowing
Limits of Epidemiology	p. 29
Physicians' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice Regarding Environmental Health Hazards	p. 46
Environmental Illness as a Practical Epistemology and a Source of Professional Confusion	p. 72
Measurement Disputes and Health Policy
Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis and Public Policy	p. 95
Who Cares If the Rat Dies? Rodents, Risks, and Humans in the Science of Food Safety	p. 108
Threshold Limit Values: Historical Perspectives and Current Practice	p. 120
Threshold Limit Values in the 1990s and Beyond: A Follow-Up	p. 135
Toxins in the Workplace
An Axe to Grind: Class Relations and Silicosis in a 19th-Century Factory	p. 145
From Dust to Dust: The Birth and Re-Birth of National Concern about Silicosis	p. 162
Farmworker and Farmer Perceptions of Farmworker Agricultural Chemical Exposure in North Carolina	p. 175
Competing Conceptions of Safety: High-Risk Workers or High-Risk Work?	p. 192
Toxins in the Community
Pollution, Politics, and Uncertainty: Environmental Epidemiology in North-East England	p. 217
Round and Round It Goes: The Epidemiology of Childhood Lead Poisoning, 1950-1990	p. 235
Lead Contamination in the 1990s and Beyond: A Follow-Up	p. 258
Suffering, Legitimacy, and Healing: The Bhopal Case, Critical Events	p. 270
Living with Environments and Contested Diseases
Time	p. 289
A Cancer Death	p. 308
Notes from a Human Canary	p. 333
Citizen Responses to Contested Medicine
Reframing Endometriosis: From "Career Woman's Disease" to Environment/Body Connections	p. 345
Popular Epidemiology and Toxic Waste Contamination: Lay and Professional Ways of Knowing	p. 364
Environmental Movements and Expert Knowledge: Evidence for a New Populism	p. 384
Setting the Environmental Health Agenda
Competing Paradigms in the Assessment of Latent Disorders: The Case of Agent Orange	p. 409
Environmental Politics and Science: The Case of PBB Contamination in Michigan	p. 430
Environmental Health Research: Setting an Agenda by Spinning Our Wheels or Climbing the Mountain?	p. 453
Contributors	p. 473
Index	p. 475
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