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The Politics of Asbestos - Understandings of Risk, Disease and Protest (Paperback)
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The Politics of Asbestos - Understandings of Risk, Disease and Protest (Paperback)
Series: Pathways to Sustainability
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Around the world, asbestos-related diseases are on the increase.
Meanwhile, in many newly-industrialising and developing countries,
asbestos use continues unabated. This book, based on
anthropological fieldwork in the UK, India and South Africa,
explores people's understandings of their illness, risk,
compensation and regulation, contrasting these personal and
community narratives with formal medical and legal understandings.
Linda Waldman shows how the domination of medical and legal
framings of risk and disease over those of workers, sufferers and
activists can narrow the responses chosen by government. This
provides important lessons for researchers, policy makers and
regulators, demonstrating that opening up to alternative
understandings can create more effective policy responses to move
towards sustainability and social justice. Published in association
with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
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