Complaints in environmental health and the construction of risk as cultural resource

2010/11/01 by Marcel Calvez · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Medicine · #Risk Perception and Management #Historical and Scientific Studies

paper · doi:10.1016/j.crhy.2010.10.001

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Abstract

The article aims to discuss the notion of health risks put forward in complaints about mobile phone masts. This notion is present in a similar way in other complaints linking cancers with industrial sites. The study of three complaints is used to analyse the local process of construction of health risks. The article argues that the social foundations of the notion of health risks and its uses as a cultural resource to develop a community of victims prevent any agreement between local activists and experts on the definition of the health problem.

Citations

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