Waldman Linda (Research Fellow Knowledge Technology And Society Team Institute Of Development Studies (Ids) Sussex University) - The Politics Of Asbestos Understandings Of Risk Disease And Protest - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Around the world asbestos - related diseases are on the increase. Meanwhile in many newly - industrializing 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).
Title: The Politics Of Asbestos Understandings Of Risk Disease And Protest
Author(s): Waldman Linda (Research Fellow Knowledge Technology And Society Team Institute Of Development Studies (Ids) Sussex University)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781849711081
Pages: 232 Pages
Publication Date: 3/18/2011
Series: Pathways to Sustainability
Category: Human Geography