Negotiating Community Engagement and Science in the Federal Environmental Public Health Sector

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 94-118

  Little, Peter C ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community institutional relations; Environmental public health; Ethnography of science and expertise; Science studies

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONSUMER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLICY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCIENCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; DATA COLLECTION; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; HUMANS; NARRATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC POLICY; PUBLIC SECTOR; SCIENCE;

EID: 67449093458     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: 15481387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1387.2009.01049.x     Document Type: Article

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