• DOI:10.1177/135910530100600309
• Corpus ID: 8968150

Women, Families & HIV/AIDS: A Sociological Perspective on the Epidemic in America

@article{Bancroft2001WomenF,
  title={Women, Families \& HIV/AIDS: A Sociological Perspective on the Epidemic in America},
  author={Angus Bancroft},
  journal={Journal of Health Psychology},
  year={2001},
  volume={6},
  pages={356 - 358}
}

• A. Bancroft
• Published 1 May 2001
• Environmental Science
• Journal of Health Psychology

hasn’t received much public attention. Edelstein and Makofske reject it rather quickly. But even if one accepts the lowest reputable estimates of radon risk, it is still far more hazardous than many heavily regulated environmental threats, including other radiation risks. Whether you think radon is underregulated or toxic waste dumps and nuclear power plants are overregulated (or you see justification for a less straightforward relationship between health risk and regulatory response), surely such gaps are worth trying to account for. Most of Radon’s Deadly Daughters is devoted to exploding a series of ‘myths’ that Edelstein and Makofske believe underlie the government’s inadequate radon response. Most important is ‘the myth of the market solution’, the privatization of the radon burden that Edelstein and Makofske link persuasively to Reaganomics. (I remember arguing that radon was the ideal environmental issue for a Republican administration. I never considered that a different administration might have framed the issue differently.) Closely related is ‘the myth of decentralization’ that radon response should be at a state and local rather than at a federal level, which Edelstein and Makofske also link to Reaganomics. Among the book’s other myths: