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Radical psychology (Harper colophon books, CN 1003)

BROWN, PHIL

Harper&Row

The increase in environmentally induced diseases and the loosening of regulation and safety measures have inspired a massive challenge to established ways of looking at health and the environment. Communities with disease clusters, women facing a growing breast cancer incidence rate, and people of color concerned about the asthma epidemic have become critical of biomedical models that emphasize the role of genetic makeup and individual lifestyle practices. Likewise, scientists have lost patience with their colleagues' and government's failure to adequately address environmental health issues and to safeguard research from corporate manipulation. Focusing specifically on breast cancer, asthma, and Gulf War-related health conditions-"contested illnesses" that have generated intense debate in the medical and political communities-Phil Brown shows how these concerns have launched an environmental health movement that has revolutionized scientific thinking and policy. Before the last three decades of widespread activism regarding toxic exposures, people had little opportunity to get information. Few sympathetic professionals were available, the scientific knowledge base was weak, government agencies were largely unprepared, laypeople were not considered bearers of useful knowledge, and ordinary people lacked their own resources for discovery and action. Brown argues that organized social movements are crucial in recognizing and acting to combat environmental diseases. His book draws on environmental and medical sociology, environmental justice, environmental health science, and social movement studies to show how citizen-science alliances have fought to overturn dominant epidemiological paradigms. His probing look at the ways scientific findings are made available to the public and the changing nature of policy offers a new perspective on health and the environment and the relationship among people, knowledge, power, and authority.

Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Columbia University Press

Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses And The Environmental Health Movement

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

400,000 graduates 60,000 jobs you need to know everything you can to make one of them yours. Two experts have been behind the scenes and observed the graduate recruitment process in top companies. They've seen how some students work the system and get those jobs. Here's how - and how you can too. <ul>
<li>Competition for graduate jobs is fierce and getting even fiercer. More graduates. More debt. The need is strong. </li> <li>This is the first book to reveal how graduate recruitment really works and how some students work the system – and get the jobs. </li> <li>Highly topical – this is a big issue that isn’t going to go away - the on-going student loans debate and concerns over student debt mean that parents and students are primed to find out how they can secure their return on investment. </li> <li>Highly practical – tells the graduate what they need to know. </li> <li>The ONLY book to be independent and research based – this book tells you how it really is. </li> <li>Marketing support - national camapign to raise visibility to graduate audience. </li> <li>PR CAMPAIGN - A grade title for PR -full scale national PR campaign to reveal the authors research and the the truth that graduates are cracking the system. </li> <li>MARKETING CAMPAIGN: The book will be marketed on university campuses and through graduate recruitment networks and websites.</li> </ul>

How to Get the Best Graduate Job: Secret Insider Strategies for Success in the Graduate Job Market

Business & Money

WILLIAMS, David

Hesketh, Anthony

Job Hunting & Careers

Pearson Education Canada

Phil Brown provides a comprehensive analysis of recent mental health policy and practice by focusing on three main themes: political-economic structures, the pitfalls of professionalism, and institutional obstacles to adequate care.

Transfer of Care: Psychiatric Deinstitutionalization and Its Aftermath

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Routledge& Kegan Paul

Radical psychology

Psychology & Counseling

Tavistock Publications

No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action

Describes how residents of Woburn, Massachusetts discovered a childhood leukemia cluster and eventually sued two corporate giants. The authors strike a humane, constructive note, advocating extensive lay involvement based on the Woburn model of civic action.

Medical Books

Mikkelsen, Edwin J.

Medicine

Univ. Of California Pr.

Toxic waste, contaminated water, cancer clustersthese phrases suggest deception and irresponsibility. But more significantly, they are watchwords for a growing struggle between communities, corporations, and government. In No Safe Place, sociologists, public policy professionals, and activists will learn how residents of Woburn, Massachusetts discovered a childhood leukemia cluster and eventually sued two corporate giants. Their story gives rise to questions important to any concerned citizen: What kind of government regulatory action can control pollution? Just how effective can the recent upsurge of popular participation in science and technology be? Phil Brown, a medical sociologist, and Edwin Mikkelsen, psychiatric consultant to the plaintiffs, look at the Woburn experience in light of similar cases, such as Love Canal, in order to show that toxic waste contamination reveals fundamental flaws in the corporate, governmental, and scientific spheres. The authors strike a humane, constructive note amidst chilling odds, advocating extensive lay involvement based on the Woburn model of civic action. Finally, they propose a safe policy for toxic wastes and governmental/corporate responsibility. Woburn, the authors predict, will become a code word for environmental struggles.

Toxic waste, contaminated water, cancer clusters―these phrases suggest deception and irresponsibility. But more significantly, they are watchwords for a growing struggle between communities, corporations, and government. In No Safe Place, sociologists, public policy professionals, and activists will learn how residents of Woburn, Massachusetts discovered a childhood leukemia cluster and eventually sued two corporate giants. Their story gives rise to questions important to any concerned citizen: What kind of government regulatory action can control pollution? Just how effective can the recent upsurge of popular participation in science and technology be? Phil Brown, a medical sociologist, and Edwin Mikkelsen, psychiatric consultant to the plaintiffs, look at the Woburn experience in light of similar cases, such as Love Canal, in order to show that toxic waste contamination reveals fundamental flaws in the corporate, governmental, and scientific spheres. The authors strike a humane, constructive note amidst chilling odds, advocating extensive lay involvement based on the Woburn model of civic action. Finally, they propose a safe policy for toxic wastes and governmental/corporate responsibility. Woburn, the authors predict, will become a code word for environmental struggles.

HARR, Jonathan

University of California Press

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