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Science 5 October 2007:
Vol. 318. no. 5847, pp. 46 - 47
DOI: 10.1126/science.1145071
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Books

ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH:
On Sickness and Surroundings

Peder Anker

Breathing Space
How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes
by Gregg Mitman
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2007. 330 pp. $30. ISBN 9780300110357.

Toxic Exposures
Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement
by Phil Brown
Columbia University Press, New York, 2007. 392 pp. $29.50, £19. ISBN 9780231129480.
Mitman considers how the changing environment in the United States has fed the surge of allergic disease. Brown explores the consequences of medical and political debates over environmentally induced illnesses.
The reviewer is at the Forum for University History, University of Oslo, Post Office Box 1008 Blindern, NO-0315 Oslo, Norway. E-mail: peder.anker{at}ffu.uio.no

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