Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List Of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. List Of Abbreviations xiii
6. Part One. Setting The Stage: Introduction, Theory, Methods
7. 1. Introduction: Environmental Justice And Contested Illnesses 3
8. 2. Embodied Health Movements 15
9. 3. Qualitative Approaches In Environmental Health Research 33
10. 4. Getting Into The Field: New Approaches To Research Methods 46
11. 5. Environmental Justice And The Precautionary Principle: Air Toxics Exposures And Health Risks Among Schoolchildren In Los Angeles 64
12. Part Two. Working In The Environmental Health Field: Ethnographic Studies
13. 6. A Narrowing Gulf Of Difference? Disputes And Discoveries In The Study Of Gulf War–Related Illnesses 79
14. 7. The Health Politics Of Asthma: Environmental Justice And Collective Illness Experience 108
15. 8. Pollution Comes Home And Gets Personal: Women’S Experience Of Household Chemical Exposure 123
16. 9. The Personal Is Scientific, The Scientific Is Political: The Public Paradigm Of The Environmental Breast Cancer Movement 147
17. 10. School Custodians And Green Cleaners: Labor-Environmental Coalitions And Toxics Reduction 169
18. 11. Labor-Environmental Coalition Formation: Framing And The Right To Know 189
19. 12. The Brown Superfund Research Program: A Multistakeholder Partnership Addresses Problems In Contaminated Communities 209
20. Part Three. Ethical Considerations
21. 13. Toxic Ignorance And The Right To Know: Biomonitoring Results Communication; A Survey Of Scientists And Study Participants 227
22. 14. Irb Challenges In Community-Based Participatory Research On Human Exposure To Environmental Toxics: A Case Study 245
23. 15. Conclusion 261
24. Appendix: Contested Illnesses Research Group’S Nuts And Bolts And Lessons Learned 269
25. References 275
26. List Of Contributors 307
27. Index 309