Foreword / Preface : Toxic exposures and the challenge of environmental health -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- 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" versus the "dirty battlefield" -- Similarities and differences among asthma, breast cancer, and Gulf War illnesses -- new precautionary approach : a public paradigm in progress -- Implications of the contested illnesses perspective -- Conclusion : the growing environmental health movement -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.