Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. FOREWORD ix
4. PREFACE: Toxic Exposures and the Challenge of Environmental Health xiii
5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxv
6. ABBREVIATIONS xxxiii
7. 1. Citizen- Science Alliances and Health Social Movements: Contested Illnesses and Challenges to the Dominant Epidemiological Paradigm 1
8. 2. Breast Cancer: A Powerful Movement and a Struggle for Science 43
9. 3. Asthma, Environmental Factors, and Environmental Justice 100
10. 4. Gulf War–Related Illnesses and the Hunt for Causation: The “Stress of War” Versus the “Dirty Battlefield” 139
11. 5. Similarities and Diff erences Among Asthma, Breast Cancer, and Gulf War Illnesses 180
12. 6. The New Precautionary Approach: A Public Paradigm in Progress 202
13. 7. Implications of the Contested Illnesses Perspective 228
14. 8. Conclusion: The Growing Environmental Health Movement 272
15. Notes 281
16. Bibliography 311
17. Index 339