TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kabat,Geoffrey C
TI  - Hyping health risks: environmental hazards in daily life and the science of epidemiology 
SN  - 9780231141482
AV  - RA566.27 .K33 2008
U1  - 615.902 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  -  
KW  - Health risk assessment
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Epidemiology
KW  - Environmental health
N1  - "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
ER  -