Environmental Sociology - American Sociological Association

Phil Brown, Stephen Zavestoski, Sabrina McCormick, Joshua Mandelbaum, Theo Luebke, and Meadow
Linder. “A Gulf Of Difference: Disputes Over Gulf War-Related Illnesses.” Journal of Health and
Social Behavior. Forthcoming. (E)
Phil Brown, Stephen Zavestoski, Sabrina McCormick, Joshua Mandelbaum, and Theo Luebke, “Print
Media Coverage Of Environmental Causation of Breast Cancer.” Sociology of Health and Illness.
Forthcoming. (E)
Sabrina McCormick and Phil Brown, “The Personal Is Scientific, The Scientific Is Political: The
Environmental Breast Cancer Movement.” Unpublished (E)
Phil Brown, Brian Mayer, and Meadow Linder, “Moving Further Upstream: From Toxics Reduction to
the Precautionary Principle” Unpublished (E)
Phil Brown, Stephen Zavestoski, Theo Luebke, Joshua Mandelbaum, Sabrina McCormick, and Brian
Mayer, “Clearing the Air and Breathing Freely: Disputes Over Air Pollution and Asthma.”
Unpublished. (E)
3) September 19
Theory and Measurement Issues
the following articles in Kroll-Smith, Brown, and Gunter, Illness and the Environment:
Steve Kroll-Smith, Phil Brown, and Valerie J. Gunter “Introduction: Environments and Diseases in a
Postnatural World”
Phil Brown, Steve Kroll-Smith, and Valerie J. Gunter, “Knowledge, Citizens, and Organizations: An
overview of Environments, Diseases, and Social Conflicts”
Lawrence Busch, Keiko Tanaka, and Valerie J. Gunter, “Who Cares If the Rat Dies? Rodents, Risks, and
Humans in the Science of Food Safety”
Grace Ziem and Barry Castleman, “Threshold Limit Values: Historical Perspectives, and Current
Practice”
David Allen, “Threshold Limit Values in the 1990’s and Beyond: A Follow-Up”
Barbara Berney, “Round and Round It Goes: The Epidemiology of Childhood Lead Poisoning, 1950-
1990”
Patricia Widener, “Lead Contamination in the 1990’s and Beyond: A Follow-Up”
4) September 26
Personal Experience, Lay Discovery and Lay Knowledge
the following articles in Illness and the Environment:
Sandra Steingraber, “Time”
Martha Balshem, “A Cancer Death”
Lynn Lawson, “Notes from a Human Canary”
Peter Phillimore, Suzanne Moffatt, Eve Hudson, and Dawn Downey, “Pollution, Politics, and
Uncertainty: Environmental Epidemiology in North-East England”
Stella M. Capek, “Reforming Endometriosis: From “Career Woman’s Disease” to Environment/Body
Connections”
Phil Brown, “Popular Epidemiology and Toxic Waste Contamination: Lay and Professional Ways of
Knowing”
Stephen R. Couch and Steve Kroll-Smith, “Environmental Movements and Expert Knowledge: Evidence
For a New Populism”
5) October 3 – no class – away giving lecture (reschedule if possible)
6) October 10
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