Contents

• Citizen-science alliances and health social movements: contested illnesses and challenges to the dominant epidemiological paradigm
• Breast cancer: a powerful movement and a struggle for science
• Asthma, environmental factors, and environmental justice
• Gulf War-related illnesses and the hunt for causation: the "stress of war" vs. the "dirty battlefield"
• Similarities and differences among asthma, breast cancer, and Gulf War illnesses
• The new precautionary approach: a public paradigm in progress
• Implications of the contested illnesses perspective
• Conclusion: the growing environmental health movement