Contested illnesses : citizens, science, and health social movements / edited by Phil Brown [and others].

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012], ©2012.

xv, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : environmental justice and contested illnesses / Rachel Morello-Frosch, Phil Brown, and Stephen Zavestoski -- Embodied health movements / Phil Brown ... [et al.] -- Qualitative approaches in environmental health research / Phil Brown -- Getting into the field: new approaches to research methods / Phil Brown, Rachel Morello-Frosch, and Stephen Zavestoski -- Environmental justice and the precautionary principle : air toxics exposures and health risks among schoolchildren in Los Angeles / Rachel Morello-Frosch, Manuel Pastor, and James Sadd -- A narrowing gulf of difference? disputes and discoveries in the study of Gulf War related illnesses / Phil Brown ... [et al.] -- The health politics of asthma : environmental justice and collective illness experience / Phil Brown ... [et al.] -- Pollution comes home and gets personal : women's experience of household chemical exposure / Rebecca Gasior Altman ... [et al.] -- The personal is scientific, the scientific is political : the public paradigm of the environmental breast cancer movement / Sabrina McCormick ... [et al.] -- School custodians and green cleaners : labor-environmental coalitions and toxics reduction / Laura Senier ... [et al.] -- Labor-environmental coalition formation : framing and the right to know / Brian Mayer, Phil Brown, and Rachel Morello-Frosch -- The brown superfund research program : a multistakeholder partnership addresses problems in contaminated communities / Laura Senier ... [et al.] -- Toxic ignorance and the right to know : biomonitoring results communication; a survey of scientists and study participants / Rachel Morello-Frosch ... [et al.] -- IRB challenges in community-based participatory research on human exposure to environmental toxics : a case study / Phil Brown ... [et al.]