Hyping health risks : environmental hazards in daily life and the science of epidemiology /
Geoffrey C. Kabat
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2008
- xvi, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
"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