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Brown, Phil – Environment, 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