Talk about cancer: Environment and health in Oceanpoint

Andrea Whittaker*

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    Abstract

    Based on an ethnographic study, this paper explores one Australian community's 'popular epidemiology' of the role of the environment on health. Residents express concern about cancer risks due to contamination from a land-fill dump site and from radioactivity from previous mining activities. These concerns carry a range of meanings, not only regarding the threats to the physical place of Oceanpoint, but the social space the community occupies and the values they espouse. The perceptions of health risks in this location involve a contest over the cultural politics of place, the political economy of development and the sense of a former authentic 'community' that is being lost and disempowered from controlling its future.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)313-325
    Number of pages13
    JournalHealth and Place
    Volume4
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Dec 1998

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