Stephen Zavestoski
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Zavestoski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Zavestoski |
| SIGNATURE | ZAVESTOSKI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of San Francisco |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 493 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Contested illnesses: Citizens, Science, and Health Social Movements
The politics and science of health and disease remain contested terrain. This interdisciplinary work engages with both public health policy and social science, asserting that science, activism and policy are not separate issues and showing how the contribution of environmental factors in disease is often overlooked
The Struggle for Justice in Bhopal: A New/Old Breed of Transnational Social Movement
Most analyses of the Bhopal disaster have focused on the management decisions leading up to the disaster on 3 December 1984. This article examines the evolution of the global movement for justice in Bhopal that arose following the disaster. Recent developments in the study of transnational social movements are employed to identify the contributions that an analysis of the evolution of the struggle for justice in Bhopal can make towards greater un…
Democracy and E-Rulemaking: Web-Based Technologies, Participation, and the Potential for Deliberation
Deliberative democratic theorists and public participation scholars have become increasingly interested in institutionalized forms of citizen discourse with the state, including those facilitated by information technology. However, there have been very few empirical studies of the claims that the Internet will make public participation more inclusive and deliberative. We report the results of an exploratory survey of 1,556 citizen participants in…
Local and Global Environmental Advocacy Networks: Responses to the Globalization of Environmental Health Hazards
Transforming Environmentalism: Warren County, PCBs, and the Origins of Environmental Justice
Democracy and the Environment on the Internet: Electronic Citizen Participation in Regulatory Rulemaking
We hypothesize that recent uses of the Internet as a public-participation mechanism in the United States fail to overcome the adversarial culture that characterizes the American regulatory process. Although the Internet has the potential to facilitate deliberative processes that could result in more widespread public involvement, greater transparency in government processes, and a more satisfied citizenry, we argue that efforts to implement Inter…
A Lab of Our Own: Environmental Causation of Breast Cancer and Challenges to the Dominant Epidemiological Paradigm
There are challenges to the dominant research paradigm in breast cancer science. In the United States, science and social activism create paradigmatic shifts. Using interviews, ethnographic observations, and an extensive review of the literature, we create a three-dimensional model to situate changes in scientific controversy concerning environmental causes of breast cancer. We identify three paradigm challenges posed by activists and some scient…
Gender, embodiment, and disease: Environmental breast cancer activists' challenges to science, the biomedical model, and policy
STEPHEN ZAVESTOSKI, SABRINA McCORMICK ANDPHIL BROWNAs developed and developing societies increasingly alter their naturalenvironments by introducing chemical and other industrial by-prod-ucts, disease-based social movements aiming to link various diseasesto environmental causes are becoming more common. The burdenof scientific proof, among other factors, poses a significant challengeto these movements. We illustrate how gender identity serves bot…
Issue Framing and Citizen Apathy Toward Local Environmental Contamination
Patient activism and the struggle for diagnosis: Gulf War illnesses and other medically unexplained physical symptoms in the US
Embodied health movements: New Approaches to Social Movements in Health
Social movements organised around health-related issues have been studied for almost as long as they have existed, yet social movement theory has not yet been applied to these movements. Health social movements (HSMs) are centrally organised around health, and address: (a) access to or provision of health care services; (b) health inequality and inequity based on race, ethnicity, gender, class and/or sexuality; and/or (c) disease, illness experie…
Social movements in health: An Introduction
Health social movements (HSMs) are an important political force concerning health access and quality of care, as well as for broader social change. We define HSMs as collective challenges to medical policy, public health policy and politics, belief systems, research and practice which include an array of formal and informal organisations, supporters, networks of co-operation and media. HSMs make many challenges to political power, professional au…
The Personal Is Scientific, the Scientific Is Political: The Public Paradigm of the Environmental Breast Cancer Movement
The health politics of asthma: Environmental justice and collective illness experience in the United States
The Internet and Environmental Decision Making: An Introduction
Toxicity and Complicity: Explaining Consensual Community Response to a Chronic Technological Disaster
The absence of citizen mobilization following the announcement of high levels of dioxin in a New England river, and subsequent Superfund listing, is explained in light of previous research that stresses the conflict and controversy that surround community contamination. Interviews with area residents and government officials, observations of public meetings, and content analyses of newspaper articles, EPA press releases, and other official docume…
Policy Issues in Environmental Health Disputes
This article compares the state of policies concerning three different diseases/conditions with putative environmental factors: asthma, breast cancer, and Gulf War-related illnesses. By comparing the state of four different types of policies--research funding, regulations, compensation/treatment, and citizen participation--the authors demonstrate the dynamic relationship between policies and health social movements. They identify four factors tha…
Science, Policy, Activism, and War: Defining the Health of Gulf War Veterans
Many servicemen and women began suffering from a variety of symptoms and illnesses soon after the 1991 Gulf War. Some veterans believe that their illnesses are related to toxic exposures during their service, though scientific research has been largely unable to demonstrate any link. Disputes over the definition, etiology, and treatment of Gulf War-related illnesses (GWRIs) continue. The authors examine the roles of science, policy, and veteran a…
A Gulf of Difference: Disputes over Gulf War-Related Illnesses
The social discovery of Gulf War-related illnesses, like other occupational and environmental disease, is firmly rooted in ongoing disputes over causation. Pressure from veterans groups, as well as intra-governmental disputes, have driven innovative research directions and challenged the dominant epidemiological paradigm. This dominant epidemiological paradigm was originally a position that viewed stress as the primary causal factor. In the emerg…
Embodied health movements: New Approaches to Social Movements in Health
Social movements organised around health-related issues have been studied for almost as long as they have existed, yet social movement theory has not yet been applied to these movements. Health social movements (HSMs) are centrally organised around health, and address: (a) access to or provision of health care services; (b) health inequality and inequity based on race, ethnicity, gender, class and/or sexuality; and/or (c) disease, illness experie…
Social movements in health: An Introduction
Health social movements (HSMs) are an important political force concerning health access and quality of care, as well as for broader social change. We define HSMs as collective challenges to medical policy, public health policy and politics, belief systems, research and practice which include an array of formal and informal organisations, supporters, networks of co-operation and media. HSMs make many challenges to political power, professional au…
Patient activism and the struggle for diagnosis: Gulf War illnesses and other medically unexplained physical symptoms in the US
The health politics of asthma: Environmental justice and collective illness experience in the United States
A Gulf of Difference: Disputes over Gulf War-Related Illnesses
The social discovery of Gulf War-related illnesses, like other occupational and environmental disease, is firmly rooted in ongoing disputes over causation. Pressure from veterans groups, as well as intra-governmental disputes, have driven innovative research directions and challenged the dominant epidemiological paradigm. This dominant epidemiological paradigm was originally a position that viewed stress as the primary causal factor. In the emerg…
The Personal Is Scientific, the Scientific Is Political: The Public Paradigm of the Environmental Breast Cancer Movement
A Lab of Our Own: Environmental Causation of Breast Cancer and Challenges to the Dominant Epidemiological Paradigm
There are challenges to the dominant research paradigm in breast cancer science. In the United States, science and social activism create paradigmatic shifts. Using interviews, ethnographic observations, and an extensive review of the literature, we create a three-dimensional model to situate changes in scientific controversy concerning environmental causes of breast cancer. We identify three paradigm challenges posed by activists and some scient…
Science, Policy, Activism, and War: Defining the Health of Gulf War Veterans
Many servicemen and women began suffering from a variety of symptoms and illnesses soon after the 1991 Gulf War. Some veterans believe that their illnesses are related to toxic exposures during their service, though scientific research has been largely unable to demonstrate any link. Disputes over the definition, etiology, and treatment of Gulf War-related illnesses (GWRIs) continue. The authors examine the roles of science, policy, and veteran a…
Toxicity and Complicity: Explaining Consensual Community Response to a Chronic Technological Disaster
The absence of citizen mobilization following the announcement of high levels of dioxin in a New England river, and subsequent Superfund listing, is explained in light of previous research that stresses the conflict and controversy that surround community contamination. Interviews with area residents and government officials, observations of public meetings, and content analyses of newspaper articles, EPA press releases, and other official docume…
Gender, embodiment, and disease: Environmental breast cancer activists' challenges to science, the biomedical model, and policy
STEPHEN ZAVESTOSKI, SABRINA McCORMICK ANDPHIL BROWNAs developed and developing societies increasingly alter their naturalenvironments by introducing chemical and other industrial by-prod-ucts, disease-based social movements aiming to link various diseasesto environmental causes are becoming more common. The burdenof scientific proof, among other factors, poses a significant challengeto these movements. We illustrate how gender identity serves bot…
Policy Issues in Environmental Health Disputes
This article compares the state of policies concerning three different diseases/conditions with putative environmental factors: asthma, breast cancer, and Gulf War-related illnesses. By comparing the state of four different types of policies--research funding, regulations, compensation/treatment, and citizen participation--the authors demonstrate the dynamic relationship between policies and health social movements. They identify four factors tha…
Issue Framing and Citizen Apathy Toward Local Environmental Contamination
Democracy and E-Rulemaking: Web-Based Technologies, Participation, and the Potential for Deliberation
Deliberative democratic theorists and public participation scholars have become increasingly interested in institutionalized forms of citizen discourse with the state, including those facilitated by information technology. However, there have been very few empirical studies of the claims that the Internet will make public participation more inclusive and deliberative. We report the results of an exploratory survey of 1,556 citizen participants in…
The Struggle for Justice in Bhopal: A New/Old Breed of Transnational Social Movement
Most analyses of the Bhopal disaster have focused on the management decisions leading up to the disaster on 3 December 1984. This article examines the evolution of the global movement for justice in Bhopal that arose following the disaster. Recent developments in the study of transnational social movements are employed to identify the contributions that an analysis of the evolution of the struggle for justice in Bhopal can make towards greater un…
Transforming Environmentalism: Warren County, PCBs, and the Origins of Environmental Justice
Democracy and the Environment on the Internet: Electronic Citizen Participation in Regulatory Rulemaking
We hypothesize that recent uses of the Internet as a public-participation mechanism in the United States fail to overcome the adversarial culture that characterizes the American regulatory process. Although the Internet has the potential to facilitate deliberative processes that could result in more widespread public involvement, greater transparency in government processes, and a more satisfied citizenry, we argue that efforts to implement Inter…
A Gulf of Difference: Disputes over Gulf War-Related Illnesses
The social discovery of Gulf War-related illnesses, like other occupational and environmental disease, is firmly rooted in ongoing disputes over causation. Pressure from veterans groups, as well as intra-governmental disputes, have driven innovative research directions and challenged the dominant epidemiological paradigm. This dominant epidemiological paradigm was originally a position that viewed stress as the primary causal factor. In the emerg…
The Internet and Environmental Decision Making: An Introduction
Toxicity and Complicity: Explaining Consensual Community Response to a Chronic Technological Disaster
The absence of citizen mobilization following the announcement of high levels of dioxin in a New England river, and subsequent Superfund listing, is explained in light of previous research that stresses the conflict and controversy that surround community contamination. Interviews with area residents and government officials, observations of public meetings, and content analyses of newspaper articles, EPA press releases, and other official docume…
Policy Issues in Environmental Health Disputes
This article compares the state of policies concerning three different diseases/conditions with putative environmental factors: asthma, breast cancer, and Gulf War-related illnesses. By comparing the state of four different types of policies--research funding, regulations, compensation/treatment, and citizen participation--the authors demonstrate the dynamic relationship between policies and health social movements. They identify four factors tha…
Science, Policy, Activism, and War: Defining the Health of Gulf War Veterans
Many servicemen and women began suffering from a variety of symptoms and illnesses soon after the 1991 Gulf War. Some veterans believe that their illnesses are related to toxic exposures during their service, though scientific research has been largely unable to demonstrate any link. Disputes over the definition, etiology, and treatment of Gulf War-related illnesses (GWRIs) continue. The authors examine the roles of science, policy, and veteran a…
The Personal Is Scientific, the Scientific Is Political: The Public Paradigm of the Environmental Breast Cancer Movement
The health politics of asthma: Environmental justice and collective illness experience in the United States
Gender, embodiment, and disease: Environmental breast cancer activists' challenges to science, the biomedical model, and policy
STEPHEN ZAVESTOSKI, SABRINA McCORMICK ANDPHIL BROWNAs developed and developing societies increasingly alter their naturalenvironments by introducing chemical and other industrial by-prod-ucts, disease-based social movements aiming to link various diseasesto environmental causes are becoming more common. The burdenof scientific proof, among other factors, poses a significant challengeto these movements. We illustrate how gender identity serves bot…
Issue Framing and Citizen Apathy Toward Local Environmental Contamination
Patient activism and the struggle for diagnosis: Gulf War illnesses and other medically unexplained physical symptoms in the US
Embodied health movements: New Approaches to Social Movements in Health
Social movements organised around health-related issues have been studied for almost as long as they have existed, yet social movement theory has not yet been applied to these movements. Health social movements (HSMs) are centrally organised around health, and address: (a) access to or provision of health care services; (b) health inequality and inequity based on race, ethnicity, gender, class and/or sexuality; and/or (c) disease, illness experie…
Social movements in health: An Introduction
Health social movements (HSMs) are an important political force concerning health access and quality of care, as well as for broader social change. We define HSMs as collective challenges to medical policy, public health policy and politics, belief systems, research and practice which include an array of formal and informal organisations, supporters, networks of co-operation and media. HSMs make many challenges to political power, professional au…
Democracy and the Environment on the Internet: Electronic Citizen Participation in Regulatory Rulemaking
We hypothesize that recent uses of the Internet as a public-participation mechanism in the United States fail to overcome the adversarial culture that characterizes the American regulatory process. Although the Internet has the potential to facilitate deliberative processes that could result in more widespread public involvement, greater transparency in government processes, and a more satisfied citizenry, we argue that efforts to implement Inter…
A Lab of Our Own: Environmental Causation of Breast Cancer and Challenges to the Dominant Epidemiological Paradigm
There are challenges to the dominant research paradigm in breast cancer science. In the United States, science and social activism create paradigmatic shifts. Using interviews, ethnographic observations, and an extensive review of the literature, we create a three-dimensional model to situate changes in scientific controversy concerning environmental causes of breast cancer. We identify three paradigm challenges posed by activists and some scient…
Democracy and E-Rulemaking: Web-Based Technologies, Participation, and the Potential for Deliberation
Deliberative democratic theorists and public participation scholars have become increasingly interested in institutionalized forms of citizen discourse with the state, including those facilitated by information technology. However, there have been very few empirical studies of the claims that the Internet will make public participation more inclusive and deliberative. We report the results of an exploratory survey of 1,556 citizen participants in…
Local and Global Environmental Advocacy Networks: Responses to the Globalization of Environmental Health Hazards
Transforming Environmentalism: Warren County, PCBs, and the Origins of Environmental Justice
The Struggle for Justice in Bhopal: A New/Old Breed of Transnational Social Movement
Most analyses of the Bhopal disaster have focused on the management decisions leading up to the disaster on 3 December 1984. This article examines the evolution of the global movement for justice in Bhopal that arose following the disaster. Recent developments in the study of transnational social movements are employed to identify the contributions that an analysis of the evolution of the struggle for justice in Bhopal can make towards greater un…
Contested illnesses: Citizens, Science, and Health Social Movements
The politics and science of health and disease remain contested terrain. This interdisciplinary work engages with both public health policy and social science, asserting that science, activism and policy are not separate issues and showing how the contribution of environmental factors in disease is often overlooked
Political science (18 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (5 works)