Low-level chemical sensitivity: implications for research and social policy

Low-level chemical sensitivity: implications for research and social policy.

There is increasing evidence that human exposure to levels of chemicals once thought to be safe--or presenting insignificant risk--are, in fact, harmful. So-called low-level exposures are now known to be associated with adverse biological effects including cancer, endocrine disruption, and chemical sensitivity. This requires that we change both (1) the way we design research linking chemicals a...

Low-level chemical sensitivity: current perspectives.

Research and Policy Implications

This article focuses on intractable conflicts and how they are transformed. Specific attention is given to the kinds of questions raised by research on such conflicts as well as the policy implications of selected research efforts. Although we believe that in most cases reducing the intractability of conflicts is desirable, we also recognize that often one (or more) adversary believes that any ...

Social policy implications of research in developmental psychopathology.

ducing the dualisms that exist between the clinical to encourage contributors to Child Developstudy of and theoretical research into childhood ment to consider the relevance of basic reand adult disorders, between the behavioral and bisearch and to submit investigations that utilize ological sciences, between developmental psycholknowledge to promote the welfare of children ogy and psychopathol...

Resiliency Research: Implications for Schools and Policy

John and Paul were friends who grew up in the same run-down housing project in a large in dustrial city. Their neighborhood was plagued by drugs and violence. By the time the boys were 10 years old and each had experienced several years of family conflict, their respective parents divorced. Each was subsequently raised, along with an older sibling and two younger siblings, by a single mother. T...