| Description |
xii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Series |
Public health in the 21st century series |
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Public health in the 21st century series.
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| Contents |
Social scientific engagement with health and environment debates: classical roots and contemporary sub disciplines / Helen Kopnina and Hans Keune -- Why is scientific information on serious environment and health problems not easily recognized in our society? / Hans Keune and Nik Van Larebeke -- Definitional struggles, environmental risk assessments and the level of trust: The Sudbury Soils Study, 2001-2008 / François Dépelteau -- The environment and the perceptions of the global health crisis / Steven Ney -- From environmental to ecological sociology: implications for health / Gary Bowden -- Biomedical and environmental health perspectives: the example of confronting breast cancer / Lori Baralt -- The ADHD regime and neuro-chemical selves in whole systems: a science studies perspective / Alexander Stingl -- The Orientalist lens and traditional medicine: circumventing Western biases in studying traditional medicines / Barbara Potrata and Anzurat Akobirshoeva -- Social scientific navigation in environment and health complexity / Hans Keune, Bert Morrens, and Ilse Loots -- Health and environment policies in the European Union / Helen Kopnina -- Environmental health organizing in a globalizing world: the emergence of a global anti-toxics movement and its political, legal and economic challenges / Stephen Zavestoski -- Conclusions on social scientific perspectives on health and environment / Hans Keune and Helen Kopnina |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Environmental health -- Social aspects.
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Social medicine.
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Environmental Health.
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Public Policy.
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Social Conditions.
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Global Health.
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| Author |
Kopnina, Helen.
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Keune, Hans.
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| LC no. |
2010012227 |
| ISBN |
9781608762163 hardcover |
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1608762165 hardcover |
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