Reviews: A Tale of Two (or More) Toxicities: Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-505
Author(s):  
Kate Davies
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Movement ◽  
Toxic Exposures

The Political Economy of Environmental Justice: Evidence on Global and Local Scales

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Horst-Dietrich Elvers
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
The Political ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Transnational Movements ◽  
Health Movement ◽  
Toxic Exposures ◽  
Global And Local

Phil Brown. Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.David Naguib Pellow. Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007.

Personalizing Pollution

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norah MacKendrick
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Precautionary Principle ◽  
Human Exposure ◽  
Environmental Chemicals ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Broad Application ◽  
Health Movement ◽  
Environmental Health Risks ◽  
Temporary Solution

This chapter reveals how the environmental health movement came together to call for a broad application of a strong precautionary principle in environmental regulation, and worked hard to lobby for global and domestic policy change. As the movement presented evidence of widespread human exposure to environmental chemicals, it faced the question of how to help people understand how to contend with this exposure. Precautionary consumption was the answer. Organizations circulated a message that gendered environmental health risks in a way that understands women’s bodies as the primary pathway through which contamination enters fetal and infant bodies. Specifically, it is women’s domestic labor that provides a temporary solution to prevent contamination. Thus, this chapter tells the story of how the environmental health movement came to take a personalized and gendered approach, and why the movement is a significant part of the story behind the rise of precautionary consumption.

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