Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; Social scientific engagement with health & environment debates: classical roots & contemporary sub disciplines; Why is scientific information on serious environment & health problems not easily recognised in our society?; Definitional Struggles, Environmental Risk Assessments & the Level of Trust: The Sudbury Soils Study, 2001-2008; The Environment & The Perceptions of the Global Health Crisis; From Environmental to Ecological Sociology: Implications for Health; Biomedical & Environmental Health Perspectives: The Example of Confronting Breast Cancer.; The ADHD regime & neuro-chemical selves in whole systems. A Science Studies Perspective; The Orientalist lens & traditional medicine: circumventing. Western biases in studying traditional medicines; Health & environment policies in the European Union; Environmental Health Organising in a Globalising World: The Emergence of a Global Anti-Toxics Movement & its Political, Legal & Economic Challenges; Conclusions on social scientific perspectives on health & environment; Index.