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Hyping health risks : environmental hazards in daily life and the science of epidemiology / Geoffrey C. Kabat

By: Kabat, Geoffrey C.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c2008Description: xvi, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780231141482; 0231141483; 9780231511964; 0231511965.Subject(s): | Health risk assessment -- Social aspects -- United States | Epidemiology | Environmental healthDDC classification: 615.902
Contents:
Introduction: toward a sociology of health hazards in daily life -- Epidemiology: its uses, strengths, and limitations -- Does the environment cause breast cancer? -- Electromagnetic fields: the rise and fall of a "pervasive threat" -- The science and politics of residential radon -- The controversy over passive smoking: a casualty of the "tobacco wars" -- Conclusion
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Books Books SCHOOL OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL SCIENCES LIBRARY

School of Health and Medical sciences Library Mbweni

Library shelves 		non fiction 615.902 (Browse shelf) Available M000001143

"A Caravan book"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-238) and index

Introduction: toward a sociology of health hazards in daily life -- Epidemiology: its uses, strengths, and limitations -- Does the environment cause breast cancer? -- Electromagnetic fields: the rise and fall of a "pervasive threat" -- The science and politics of residential radon -- The controversy over passive smoking: a casualty of the "tobacco wars" -- Conclusion

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