Health and environment : social science perspectives / Helen Kopnina and Hans Keune, editors.

New York : Nova Science Publishers, [2010], ©2010.

xii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.