Environmental Sociology - American Sociological Association

Charles Engel et al, “Psychological Conditions Diagnosed Among Veterans Seeking Department of
Defense Care for Gulf War-Related Health Concerns,” Journal of Occupational and Environmental
Medicine 1999, 41:384-392 (RP)
Jonathan Banks and Lindsay Prior, “Doing Things with Illness: The Micro Politics of the CFS Clinic”
Social Science and Medicine 2001, 52:11-23(RP)
Leonard Jason et al. “Politics, Science and the Emergence of a New Disease: The Case of Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome,” American Psychologist 1997, 52:973-983 (RP)
Norma Ware, “Suffering and the Social Construction of Illness: The Delegitimation of Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 1992, 6:347-361 (RP)
Simon Wessely et al. “Functional Somatic Syndromes: One or Many?” Lancet 1999, 354:936-939 (RP)
Steve Kroll-Smith and H. Hugh Floyd “Environmental Illness as a Practical Epistemology and a Source
of Professional Confusion” in Illness and the Environment
11) November 14
Asthma
Pew Environmental Health Commission, “Attack Asthma” (RP)
Joel Schwartz et al., “Particulate Air Pollution and Hospital Emergency Room Visits for Asthma in
Seattle” American Review of Respiratory Disease 1993, 147:826-831. (RP)
Michael S. Friedman et al., “Impact of Changes in Transportation and Commuting Behavior During the
1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta on Air Quality and Childhood Asthma” Journal of the
American Medical Association 2001, 285:897-905 (RP)
James W. Krieger et al, “Asthma and the Home Environment of Low-Income Urban Chidlren
Preliminary Findings from the Seattle-King County Healthy Homes Project” Journal of Urban Health
2000, 77:50-66
Conrad Schneider, “Death, Disease, and Dirty Power: Mortality and Health Damage Due to Air Pollution
from Power Plants.” Boston: Clear the Air Task Force (RP)
12) November 21 –no class – Thanksgiving vacation
13) November 28
Citizen-Science Alliances and Democratic Politics
the following articles in Kleinman, Science, Technology and Democracy
Steven Epstein, “Democracy, Expertise, and AIDS Treatment Actvism”
Richard Sclove, “Town Meetings on Technology: Consensus Conferences as Democratic Participation”
Louise Kaplan, “Public Participation in Nuclear Facility Decisions; Lessons from Hanford”
Stephen Schneider, “Is the ‘Citizen-Scientist’ an Oxymoron?”
Sandra Harding, “Should Philosophies of Science Encode Democratic Ideals?”
Daniel Kleinman, “Democratization of Science and Technology”
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