Full Description
In this wholly revised second edition, Michael Edelstein draws on his thirty years as a community activist to provide a much-expanded theoretical foundation for understanding the psychosocial impacts of toxic contamination. Informed by social psychological theory and an extensive survey of documented cases of toxic exposure, and enlivened by excerp
Contents
1 Toxic Exposure: The Plague of Our Time -- 2 Legler: The Story of a Contaminated Community -- 3 Lifescape Change: Cognitive Adjustment to Toxic Exposure -- 4 Individual and Family Impacts -- 5 Disabling Citizens: The Governmental Response to Toxic Exposure -- 6 The Enabling Response: Community Development and Toxic Exposure -- 7 The Societal Meaning of Pollution
