Health Social Movements Publications

  • Publication date September 28, 2023
  • Categories: Category 1

Books

Phil Brown, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Stephen Zavestoski, and the Contested Illnesses Research Group,Contested Illnesses: Citizens, Science and Health Social Movements (2012, University of California Press).

Phil Brown, Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement (2007, Columbia University Press).

Phil Brown and Stephen Zavestoski (eds.), Social Movements in Health (2005, Blackwell Publishers).

Articles and chapters

  1. Phil Brown “Engaged and Reflexive Sociology for Environmental Health” In press Sociological Forum 2023
  • Jennifer Ohayon, Alissa Cordner, Andrea Amico, Phil Brown, and Lauren Richter, “Persistent Chemicals, Persistent Activism: Scientific Opportunity, and Social Movement Organizing on Contamination by Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances”  Social Movement Studies Published online:  Feb, 24, 2023
  • Martha Powers, Phil Brown, Grace Poudrier, Jennifer Ohayon, Alissa Cordner, Cole Alder, and Marina Atlas “COVID-19 as Eco-Pandemic Injustice: Exploitation of a Crisis and Opportunities for Collective and Anti-racist Approaches to Environmental Health”  Journal of Health and Social Behavior 2021 62(2):222-229 DOI: 10.1171/0022146521100574
  • Phil Brown “From the Radical Psychology Movement to STS: A Journey from the 1960s in Multiple Parts”Science as Culture. 2021 30(1):12-25. Published online September 25, 2020. DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2020.1819223
  • Phil Brown, Vanessa De La Rosa, and Alissa Cordner. “Toxic Trespass and Emerging Contaminants: Science, Activism, and Policy for Chemicals in Our Bodies.” Pp. 34-58 In Alice Mah, ed. Environmental Justice and Citizen Science in a Post Truth Age. 2020.
  • Lourdes Vera, Lindsey Dillon, Phil Brown, Christopher Sellers, Aaron Lemelin, Jennifer Ohayon, Sara Wylie, Dawn Walker, and the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative. 2018. “Data Resistance: A Social Movement Organizational Autoethnography of the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative” Mobilization 23:511-529.
  • Alissa Cordner, Phil Brown, and Margaret Mulcahy “Playing with Fire: The World of Flame Retardant Activism and Policy” In Jan Willem Duyvendak and James M. Jasper (eds.) Players and Arenas: The Interactive Dynamics of Protest, Amsterdam University Press, 2015.
  • Alissa Cordner, Phil Brown, and Rachel Morello-Frosch, “Health Social Movements” In William Cockerham, Robert Dingwall, and Stella Quah (eds.) Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
  • Alissa Cordner, David Ciplet, Rachel Morello-Frosch, and Phil Brown, “Research Ethics for Environmental Health and Justice: Academics and Movement-Building,” Social Movement Studies, 2012, 11:161-176. DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2012.664898. PMCID: PMC3370411.
  1. Phil Brown, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Stephen Zavestoski, Laura Senier, Rebecca Altman, Elizabeth Hoover, Sabrina McCormick, Brian Mayer, and Crystal Adams, “Social Movements and Health,” In Bernice A. Pescosolido, Jack K. Martin, Jane McLeod, and Anne Rogers (eds.) Handbook of Health, Illness & Healing: Blueprint for the 21st Century, New York: Springer, 2011.
  1. Brian Mayer, Phil Brown, and Rachel Morello-Frosch, “Labor-Environmental Coalition Formation: Framing and the Right-to-Know,” Sociological Forum, 2010, 25:745-768. DOI: 10.1111/j.1573-7861.2010.01210.x
  1. Phil Brown, Crystal Adams, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Laura Senier, and Ruth Simpson, “Health Social Movements: History, Current Work, and Future Directions,” In Peter Conrad, Chloe Bird, Allan Fremont, and Stefan Timmermans (eds.) Handbook of Medical Sociology, 2010
  1. Phil Brown, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Stephen Zavestoski, Laura Senier, Rebecca Altman, Elizabeth Hoover, Sabrina McCormick, Brian Mayer, and Crystal Adams, “Field Analysis and Policy Ethnography: New Directions for Studying Health Social Movements,” pp. 101-116 in Jane Banaszak-Holl, Sandra Levitsky, and Mayer Zald (eds.) Social Movements and the Transformation of American Health Care, Oxford University Press, 2010. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195388299.001.0001.
  1. Laura Senier, Brian Mayer, Phil Brown, and Rachel Morello-Frosch, “School Custodians and Green Cleaners: New Approaches to Labor-Environmental Coalitions,” Organization and Environment, 2007, 20:304-324. DOI: 10.1177/1086026607305740.
  1. Rachel Morello-Frosch, Steve Zavestoski, Phil Brown, Sabrina McCormick, Brian Mayer, and Rebecca Gasior, “Social Movements in Health: Responses to and Shapers of a Changed Medical World,” Kelly Moore and Scott Frickel (eds.) In The New Political Sociology of Science: Institutions, Networks, and Power, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.
  1. Stephen Zavestoski, Phil Brown, Sabrina McCormick, “Gender, Embodiment, and Disease: Environmental Breast Cancer Activists’ Challenges to Science, the Biomedical Model, and Policy,” Science as Culture,2004, 13:563-586. DOI: 10.1080/0950543042000311869.
  1. Stephen Zavestoski, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Phil Brown, Brian Mayer, Sabrina McCormick, and Rebecca Gasior, “Health Social Movements and Contested Illnesses,” Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change, 2004, 25:253-278. DOI: 10.1016/S0163-786X(04)25010-8.
  1. Phil Brown, Brian Mayer, Stephen Zavestoski, Theo Luebke, Josh Mandlebaum, and Sabrina McCormick, “The Politics of Asthma Suffering: Environmental Justice and the Social Movement Transformation of Illness Experience,” David Pellow and Robert Brulle (eds.) In Where We Live, Work, and Play: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005
  1. Phil Brown and Stephan Zavestoski, “Social Movements in Health: An Introduction,” Sociology of Health and Illness, 2004, 26:679-694. DOI: 10.1111/j.0141-9889.2004.00413.x
  • Stephen Zavestoski, Phil Brown, Sabrina McCormick, Brian Mayer, Maryhelen D’Ottavi, and Jaime Lucove, “Patient Activism and the Struggle for Diagnosis: Gulf War Illnesses and Other Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms in the US,” Social Science and Medicine, 2004, 58:161-175. DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(03)00157-6.
  • Phil Brown, Steve Zavestoski, Sabrina McCormick, Brian Mayer, Rachel Morello-Frosch, and Rebecca Gasior, “Embodied Health Movements: Uncharted Territory in Social Movement Research,” Sociology of Health and Illness, 2004, 26:1-31. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2004.00378.x.
  • Sabrina McCormick, Phil Brown, and Stephen Zavestoski, “The Personal Is Scientific, the Scientific is Political: The Environmental Breast Cancer Movement,” Sociological Forum, 2003, 18:545-576. DOI: 10.1023/B:SOFO.0000003003.00251.2f
  • Phil Brown, Steve Zavestoski, Theo Luebke, Joshua Mandelbaum, Sabrina McCormick, and Brian Mayer, “The Politics of Asthma Suffering: Environmental Justice and the Social Movement Transformation of Illness Experience,” Social Science and Medicine, 2003, 57:453-464. DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00375-1
  • Steve Zavestoski, Phil Brown, Meadow Linder, Brian Mayer, and Sabrina McCormick, “Science, Policy, Activism, and War: Defining the Health of Gulf War Veterans,” Science, Technology, and Human Values, 2002, 27:171-205. DOI: 10.1177/016224390202700201
  • Phil Brown, “Social Science and Environmental Activism:  A Personal Account” In Philip Nyden, Anne Figert, Mark Shibley, and Darryl Burrows (eds.) Building Community:  Social Science in Action, Pine Forge Press, 1997
  • Phil Brown, “Popular Epidemiology, Toxic Wastes, and Social Movements,” In Jonathan Gabe (ed.) Medicine, Health and Risk:  Sociological Perspectives, Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1995, 91-112.
  • Phil Brown and Susan Masterson-Allen, “The Toxic Waste Movement: A New Kind of Activism,” Society and Natural Resources, 1994, 7:269-286. DOI: 10.1080/08941929409380864.
  • Susan Allen and Phil Brown, “Public Reaction to Toxic Waste Contamination:  Analysis of a Social Movement,” International Journal of Health Services, 1990, 20:485-499. DOI: 10.2190/ATLC-AX39-M5EX-BYHF
  • Phil Brown, “Popular Epidemiology: Community Response to Toxic Waste-Induced Disease in Woburn, Massachusetts and Other Sites,” Science, Technology, and Human Values, 1987, 12(3-4):76-85.
  • Phil Brown, “The Right to Refuse Treatment and the Movement for Mental Health Reform,” Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and Law, 1984, 9:291-313. DOI: 10.1215/03616878-9-2-291.
  • Phil Brown, “The Mental Patients’ Rights Movement and Mental Health Institutional Change,” International Journal of Health Services, 1981, 11:523-540. DOI: 10.2190/CU8G-D0RJ-YY54-UC3F.
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