“They Kept Going for Answers”: Knowledge, Capacity, and Environmental Health Literacy in Michigan’s PBB Contamination
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contested knowledge; contested illness; PBB; oral histories; community mobilization; environmental health literacy; community capacity; community engagement;All these keywords.
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