Kate Davies

The Rise of the U.S. Environmental Health Movement

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 well-being.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9781442221376
• ISBN-10: 1442221372
• Artikelnr.: 37151918

Autorenporträt

Dual citizen of Canada and UK

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Environmental Health The US Environmental
Health Movement Background This Book Part 1: Historical and Cultural Roots
Chapter 1: The European Ancestry of Environmental Health The Philosophy of
Ancient Greece The Engineering Achievements of Rome The Spread of
Judeo-Christian Religions The Scientific Revolution and the Nature of
Science Social Justice and the Enlightenment The Environmental Health
Consequences of the Industrial Revolution New Policies and Legislation
Recognizing and Preventing Environmentally-Related Diseases Chapter 2:
Early Environmental Public Health The Environmental Health Consequences of
the American Industrial Revolution Environmental Public Health Concerns
Occupational Health: Working with the Urban Poor The Home as an Environment
for Protecting Health The Progressive Era and Environmental Conservation
The Origins of Urban Planning Preventing Environmentally-Transmitted
Diseases Chapter 3: Environmentalism and Economic Growth Post World War II
Economic Growth and the Creation of a Consumer Society The Environmental
Health Effects of Air Pollution The Environmental Health Effects of Water
Pollution The Environmental Health Effects of Food Quality The Antinuclear
Movement and the Precedents It Set New Ideas: Toxic Chemicals New Ideas:
Deep Ecology and Social Ecology New Ideas: Population Growth and Resource
Depletion The Rise of Environmentalism EPA and the Final Separation of
Environmental and Public Health The Relationship Between the Environmental
Movement and the Labor Movement The Toxic Substances Control Act and Other
Environmental Legislation of the 1970s Chapter 4: The Birth of the US
Environmental Health Movement Love Canal and Its Aftermath The Beginnings
of the Environmental Justice Movement The Role of Disasters in Building the
Environmental Health Movement Struggles for Regional Environmental Health
in the Great Lakes Winning the Battle Against Waste Incineration Opposition
to Pesticides: An Ongoing Struggle Securing the Right to Know Toxics Use
Reduction and Pollution Prevention: Limited Success The Lead Saga Newer
Challenges: Endocrine Disruptors and Epigenetics Part II: The Contemporary
Movement Chapter 5: Organizations and Issues The Movement's Strongest
Asset: State and Local Groups The Roles of National Groups The Influence of
European Toxics Policy The Louisville Charter The Emergence of National
Coalitions Communications and Getting the Word Out The Importance of
Women's Organizations Alliances with Labor Organizations New Ways of
Framing Environmental Health: Judeo-Christian Religions Beyond Toxics:
Nanotechnology Beyond Toxics: Electromagnetic Fields Beyond Toxics: Fossil
Fuels Beyond Toxics: Urban Planning and Green Building The Significance of
Foundation Funding Chapter 6: Making Environmental Issues Personal Gaining
Support from People Affected by Environmentally-Related Disease Working
with Caregivers - Nurses Working with Caregivers - Physicians Engaging the
Health Care Sector Protecting Children's Environmental Health Food,
Glorious Food Opposing Toxics in Consumer Products And in Personal Care
Products Pollution in People Chapter 7: Precaution and the Limitations of
Science The Impossibility of Proving Environmental Causation The Failure to
Consider Ethics The Distortion and Cover-up of Scientific Information
Problems with Risk Assessment Overview of Precaution The Ingredients of
Precaution Progress on Precaution Chapter 8: Environmental Justice and the
Right to a Healthy Environment Perspectives on Environmental Justice
Constitutional and Legal Rights to a Healthy Environment Scientific
Information on Environmental Health Injustice in the US Environmental
Justice Issues Community-Based Research Environmental Justice Strategies
The US Environmental Justice and Environmental Health Movements Chapter 9:
Changing Economics, the Markets and Business The Cost of Environmental
Illness Market Campaigns: Overview Market Campaigns: PVC Products and
Packaging Market Campaigns: Electronics Market Campaigns: The Health Sector
Green Chemistry and Safer Materials Socially Responsible Investing
Partnerships with Business Conclusion and Next Steps: Strategies for Social
Change Strategies for Social Change Creating Inspiring Visions Minding the
Gap between our Collective Aspirations and Reality Seeing the Forest and
the Trees Identifying Leverage Points for Environmental Health Organizing
More, Collective Action Telling Environmental Health Stories Self-Care
Final Reflections A Chronology of Key Events in US Environmental Health
Selected Resources on Environmental Health