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Rise of the U.S. environmental health movement
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- Summary
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This is the first book to offer a comprehensive examination of the Environmental Health Movement, which unlike many parts of the environmental movement, focuses on ways toxic chemicals and other ha...
This is the first book to offer a comprehensive examination of the Environmental Health Movement, which unlike many parts of the environmental movement, focuses on ways toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents in the environmental effect human health and wellbeing.
Details
- Creator
- Kate Davies
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c2013
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (268 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781299444454, 1299444458, 9781442221383, 1442221380, 1442221372, 144222245X
- OCLC
- ocn839305267
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Title Page; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Historical and Cultural Roots; The European Ancestry of Environmental Health; Early Environmental Public Health in the United States; Environmentalism and Economic Growth; The Birth of the U.S. Environmental Health Movement; The Contemporary Movement; Organizations and Issues; Making Environmental Issues Personal; Precaution and the Limitationsof Science; Environmental Justice and the Right to a Healthy Environment; Changing Economics, the Markets, and Business; Conclusion and Next Steps: Strategies for Social Change
- A Chronology of Key EventsSelected Environmental Health Resources; Index; About the Author