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...

This book represents the first collection of research on health social movements.

• Demonstrates that health social movements are an innovative and powerful form of political action.
  
• Brings together the study of health and illness with social movement theory in order to establish a basis for the study of health social movements.
  
• Covers disease-based movements focused on diseases such as Alzheimer's and breast cancer.
  
• Also addresses issue-based movements such as the pro-choice movement, the movement for complementary and alternative...

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