Death Education in the Writing Classroom

ABOUT THE BOOK This book is a selection of New Solutions articles, published over the past two decades, from the Scientific Solutions section of the journal. The section is intended as a forum for the presentation of scientific results or summaries of scientific data that call for strong action to protect public health, even in the absence of definitive proof of cause and effect. In this volume, the articles are grouped into three sections: critical science, precautionary science, and solutions science. In the first section, the contributors challenge current ways in which science is practiced or interpreted and call for new ways of thinking about environmental and occupational risks. In the second section, the contributors offer new ways of understanding scientific data that will lead to more protective policies or regulations. The third section broadens the framework for future actions to ensure public health. The final essay proposes a way forward, from thinking mainly about problems to thinking mainly about solutions. The three sections constitute a logical progression from scientific knowledge to fashioning bold solutions to problems in environmental and occupational health. Readers are introduced to some of the most important issues in the field, described by leading progressive thinkers and proponents of solutions. This collection can be used as a reader in courses, and by worker health and safety and environmental health advocates in the United States and other countries.Intended Audience: College or graduate students in science and public health; worker health and safety advocates; policymakers; environmental health advocates.

ABOUT THE EDITOR Professor Richard Clapp is an epidemiologist with more than thirty years of experience in public health practice, teaching, and consulting. He has an M.P.H. from Harvard School of Public Health and a D.Sc. in epidemiology from Boston University School of Public Health. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Environmental Health at BUSPH and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Health and Environment at the University of Massachusetts–Lowell. Prof. Clapp served as Director of the Massachusetts Cancer Registry from 1980 to 1989, and worked in two environmental health consulting groups in the past two decades. His research has included studies of cancer in workers around nuclear facilities, in military veterans, and in communities with toxic hazards. He has been on the editorial board of New Solutions since 1994, and has edited and contributed to the Scientific Solutions section of the journal since that time. He also served as an Associate Editor of Environmental Health Perspectives from 2005 to 2010 and has been on numerous scientific advisory boards.