When the Public Know Better: Popular Epidemiology Challenges the System.

Brown, Phil

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ERIC Number: EJ482364

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Publication Date: 1993

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When the Public Know Better: Popular Epidemiology Challenges the System.

Brown, Phil

Environment, v35 n8 p16-20,32-41 Oct 1993

Compares the ways of knowing exhibited by community residents when documenting environmental hazards and diseases to the ways of knowing exhibited by professional scientists. Argues that popular epidemiology mirrors clinical medicine and should err on the safe side of false positives. (Contains 62 references.) (MDH)

Descriptors: Activism, Community Action, Community Education, Environmental Education, Environmental Research, Epidemiology, Hazardous Materials, Poisons, Public Health, Research Methodology, Waste Disposal

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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