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Informationen zum Autor Dual citizen of Canada and UK Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Environmental HealthThe US Environmental Health MovementBackgroundThis BookPart 1: Historical and Cultural Roots Chapter 1: The European Ancestry of Environmental Health The Philosophy of Ancient GreeceThe Engineering Achievements of RomeThe Spread of Judeo-Christian ReligionsThe Scientific Revolution and the Nature of ScienceSocial Justice and the EnlightenmentThe Environmental Health Consequences of the Industrial RevolutionNew Policies and LegislationRecognizing and Preventing Environmentally-Related DiseasesChapter 2: Early Environmental Public Health The Environmental Health Consequences of the American Industrial RevolutionEnvironmental Public Health ConcernsOccupational Health: Working with the Urban PoorThe Home as an Environment for Protecting HealthThe Progressive Era and Environmental ConservationThe Origins of Urban PlanningPreventing Environmentally-Transmitted Diseases Chapter 3: Environmentalism and Economic Growth Post World War II Economic Growth and the Creation of a Consumer SocietyThe Environmental Health Effects of Air Pollution The Environmental Health Effects of Water PollutionThe Environmental Health Effects of Food QualityThe Antinuclear Movement and the Precedents It SetNew Ideas: Toxic ChemicalsNew Ideas: Deep Ecology and Social EcologyNew Ideas: Population Growth and Resource DepletionThe Rise of EnvironmentalismEPA and the Final Separation of Environmental and Public HealthThe Relationship Between the Environmental Movement and the Labor MovementThe Toxic Substances Control Act and Other Environmental Legislation of the 1970sChapter 4: The Birth of the US Environmental Health Movement Love Canal and Its AftermathThe Beginnings of the Environmental Justice MovementThe Role of Disasters in Building the Environmental Health MovementStruggles for Regional Environmental Health in the Great LakesWinning the Battle Against Waste IncinerationOpposition to Pesticides: An Ongoing StruggleSecuring the Right to KnowToxics Use Reduction and Pollution Prevention: Limited SuccessThe Lead SagaNewer Challenges: Endocrine Disruptors and EpigeneticsPart II: The Contemporary MovementChapter 5: Organizations and Issues The Movement's Strongest Asset: State and Local Groups The Roles of National Groups The Influence of European Toxics PolicyThe Louisville CharterThe Emergence of National Coalitions Communications and Getting the Word OutThe Importance of Women's OrganizationsAlliances with Labor OrganizationsNew Ways of Framing Environmental Health: Judeo-Christian ReligionsBeyond Toxics: NanotechnologyBeyond Toxics: Electromagnetic FieldsBeyond Toxics: Fossil FuelsBeyond Toxics: Urban Planning and Green BuildingThe Significance of Foundation FundingChapter 6: Making Environmental Issues Personal Gaining Support from People Affected by Environmentally-Related DiseaseWorking with Caregivers - NursesWorking with Caregivers - PhysiciansEngaging the Health Care SectorProtecting Children's Environmental HealthFood, Glorious FoodOpposing Toxics in Consumer ProductsAnd in Personal Care Products Pollution in PeopleChapter 7: Precaution and the Limitations of Science The Impossibility of Proving Environmental CausationThe Failure to Consid...
