ISBN:
1611224322
,
9781611224320
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 301 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Public health in the 21st century series
Series Statement:
Public Health in the 21st Century
Parallel Title:
Print version Health and environment
DDC:
362.1
Keywords:
Environmental health Social aspects
;
Social medicine
;
World Health
;
Public Policy
;
Environmental Health
;
Social Conditions
;
Environmental health ; Social aspects..
;
Social medicine
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES -- HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- ETERNAL QUESTIONS AND PRESENT CONCERNS -- ENGAGEMENT OF SOCIAL SCIENTISTS WITH THE TOPICS OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT -- HEALTH -- ENVIRONMENT -- TRACING LINKAGES -- THE SUSTAINABILITY PARADOX -- CHARITY PARADOX -- STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK -- REFERENCES -- PART I. PROBLEM-FRAMING AND DEBATES -- Chapter 1 SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC ENGAGEMENT WITH HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT DEBATES: CLASSICAL ROOTS AND CONTEMPORARY SUB DISCIPLINES -- ABSTRACT -- CLASSICAL THEORIES AND CONTEMPORARY INTERPRETATIONS -- Thomas Malthus -- Karl Marx -- Durkheim and Weber -- CHANGES IN THE WORLD SINCE THE "CLASSICISTS" -- Health and Environment in the Context of Globalization -- Population Growth -- Health Issues in the Recent Decades -- Environmental Issues in the Recent Decades -- FROM CLASSICAL SCHOLARS TO MODERN ACADEMIC SUBDISCIPLINES -- Environmental Sociology -- Ecology of Health -- Ecological Sociology -- Environmental Health -- Medical Anthropology -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 WHY IS SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION ON SERIOUS ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH PROBLEMS NOT EASILY RECOGNIZED IN OUR SOCIETY? -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH SCIENCE -- Current Environment and Health Problems -- Scientific Proof -- Paralysis by Traditional Analysis -- Physical Chemical Hygiene -- 2. SCIENCE AND SOCIETY -- Trial and Retribution -- To Investigate or Not to Investigate: The Mysterious Case of Dendermonde -- To Know and Not to Act -- Mercedes or Health -- 3. THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH -- Biased Expertise -- Smokescreen Evidence: Science and Industry -- The Politics of Expert Judgement: Industry Involvement in the IARC -- Huff J. (2002) -- Alignment according to Huff -- I Rest my Case (at Home).
Description / Table of Contents:
Social scientific engagement with health and environment debates: classical roots and contemporary sub disciplines / Helen Kopnina and Hans KeuneWhy is scientific information on serious environment and health problems not easily recognized in our society? / Hans Keune and Nik Van Larebeke -- Definitional struggles, environmental risk assessments and the level of trust: The Sudbury Soils Study, 2001-2008 / François Dépelteau -- The environment and the perceptions of the global health crisis / Steven Ney -- From environmental to ecological sociology: implications for health / Gary Bowden -- Biomedical and environmental health perspectives: the example of confronting breast cancer / Lori Baralt -- The ADHD regime and neuro-chemical selves in whole systems: a science studies perspective / Alexander Stingl -- The Orientalist lens and traditional medicine: circumventing Western biases in studying traditional medicines / Barbara Potrata and Anzurat Akobirshoeva -- Social scientific navigation in environment and health complexity / Hans Keune, Bert Morrens, and Ilse Loots -- Health and environment policies in the European Union / Helen Kopnina -- Environmental health organizing in a globalizing world: the emergence of a global anti-toxics movement and its political, legal and economic challenges / Stephen Zavestoski -- Conclusions on social scientific perspectives on health and environment / Hans Keune and Helen Kopnina.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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