Safe Exposure? Perceptions of Health Risks from Agricultural Chemicals among California Farmworkers

Risk, Culture, and Health Inequality: Shifting Perceptions of Danger and Blame

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 143-162

  Harthorn, Barbara Herr ^a  

^a and Economic Research ^*  (United States)

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