Articles

Environmental Health

McCormick, Sabrina. Breast Cancer Activism Moving Beyond the Mammography Debate.
Women: Images & Realities, A Multicultural Anthology, 5th ed. Amy Kessleman, Lily McNair
and Nancy Schniedwind eds. New York: McGraw Hill Companies, Inc.

McCormick, Sabrina, Phil Brown, and Stephen Zavestoski. The Personal Is Scientific, The
Scientific Is Political: The Public Paradigm of the Environmental Breast Cancer Movement. In
Contested Illness: Ethnographic Explorations. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Brown, Phil, Stephen Zavestoski, Sabrina McCormick, Brian Mayer, Rachel Morello-Frosch,
and Rebecca Gasior. Embodied Health Movements: Uncharted Territory in Social Movement
Research. In Perspectives in Medical Sociology, Phil Brown ed. Longrove, IL: Waveland

McCormick, Sabrina. Environmental Health. In Twenty Lessons of Environmental Sociology,
Tammy Lewis and Ken Gould, eds. Oxford University Press.

Brown, Phil, Sabrina McCormick, Brian Mayer, Steve Zavestoski, Rachel Morello-Frosch,
Rebecca Gasior-Altman, and Laura Senier. “A Lab of Our Own”: Environmental Causation
of Breast Cancer and Challenges to the Dominant Epidemiological Paradigm. Science,
Technology, and Human Values 31 (5): 499-536.

Zavestoski, Steve, Sabrina McCormick, and Phil Brown. 2005. Gender, Embodiment and
Disease: Environmental Breast Cancer Activists’ Challenge to Science, the Biomedical Model,
and Policy. Science as Culture 13(4): 563-586.

Morello-Frosch, Rachel, Stephen Zavestoski, Phil Brown, Brian Mayer, Sabrina McCormick,
and Rebecca Gasior. 2005. Health Social Movements and Contested Illnesses. Research in
Social Movements, Conflict and Change 25: 253-274.

Brown, Phil, Steve Zavestoski, Brian Mayer, Theo Luebke, Josh Mandlebaum, and Sabrina
McCormick. 2005. Clearing the Air and Breathing Freely: The Health Politics of Pollution and
Asthma. International Journal of Health Services 34(1): 39-63.

McCormick, Sabrina, Ruth Polk, Phil Brown, and Julia Brody. 2004. Public Involvement in
Breast Cancer Research: An Analysis and Prototype. International Journal of Health Services
34 (4): 625-646.

Brown, Phil, Steve Zavestoski, Sabrina McCormick, Brian Mayer, and Rachel Morello-
Frosch. 2004. Embodied Health Movements: Uncharted Territory in Social Movement
Research. Sociology of Health and Illness 26 (1): 50-80.

Zavestoski, Stephen, Phil Brown, Sabrina McCormick, Brian Mayer, Maryhelen D’Ottavi, and
Jaime Lucove. 2004. Illness Experience and Patient Activism: Gulf War-Related Illnesses and
other Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms. Social Science and Medicine 58(1): 161-
176.

McCormick, Sabrina, Phil Brown, and Steve Zavestoski. 2003. The Personal Is Scientific,
The Scientific Is Political: The Environmental Breast Cancer Movement. Sociological Forum
18(4): 545-576.

Brown, Phil, Brian Mayer, Steve Zavestoski, Theo Luebke, Josh Mandlebaum, and Sabrina
McCormick. 2003. The Politics of Asthma Suffering: Environmental Justice and the Social
Movement Transformation of Illness Experience. Social Science and Medicine 57(3): 453-464.

Brown, Phil, Steve Zavestoski, Theo Luebke, Josh Mandlebaum, Sabrina McCormick, and
Brian Mayer. 2003. Clearing the Air and Breathing Freely: The Health Politics of Air Pollution

and Asthma. In Smoke and Mirrors: Air Pollution as a Social and Political Artifact, Melanie
Dupuis ed. New York: New York University Press.

Brown, Phil, Stephen Zavestoski, Brian Mayer, Sabrina McCormick, and Pamela Webster.
2002. Policy Outcomes of Environmental Health Disputes. Annals of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science 584(1): 175-202.

Zavestoski, Steve, Phil Brown, Meadow Linder, Sabrina McCormick, and Brian Mayer.
2002. Science, Policy, Activism and War: Defining the Health of Gulf War Veterans. Science,
Technology, & Human Values 27(2): 171-205.

Brown, Phil, Steve Zavestoski, Sabrina McCormick, Joshua Mandelbaum, Theo Luebke, and
Meadow Linder. 2001. A Gulf of Difference: Disputes Over Gulf War-Related Illnesses. Journal
of Health and Social Sciences 43(2): 235-257.

Brown, Phil, Steve Zavestoski, Sabrina McCormick, Joshua Mandelbaum, and Theo Luebke.
2001. Print Media Coverage of Environmental Causation of Breast Cancer. Sociology of
Health and Illness 23(6): 747-775.

Brown, Phil, Steve Zavestoski, Meadow Linder, Sabrina McCormick, and Brian Mayer. 2001.
Chemicals and Casualties: The Search for the Causes of Gulf War Illnesses. In Synthetic
Planet: Chemical Politics and the Hazards of Modern Life, Monica Casper, ed. London:
Routledge.

Climate Change

Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation
(SREX) http://www.ipcc-wg2.gov/AR5/extremes-sr/index.html

McCormick, Sabrina. Evidence Based Media: A Communication Approach for Effective
Climate Adaptation. In Climate Adaptation, National Climate Change Adaptation Research
Facility. Gold Coast, Australia. (forthcoming)

McCormick, Sabrina. 2010. Dying of the Heat: Diagnostic Debates, Calculations of Risk, and
Actions to Advance Preparedness. Environment and Planning A 42(7): 1513-1518.

McCormick, Sabrina. The Social Dimensions of Extreme Heat and Cold. In Handbook of
Hazards and Disasters, Ben Wisner, Ilan Kelman and Jen-Christophe Gaillard, eds. New York,
NY: Routledge. (forthcoming)

McCormick, Sabrina. 2010. Hot or Not?: Obstacles to the Emergence of Climate-Induced
Illness Movements. In Social Movements and Health Care in the United States. Mayer Zald,
Jane Banaszak-Holl and Sandra Levitsky eds. Oxford University Press.

Energy

McCormick, Sabrina. Disaster Distrust: Risk Assessment, Citizen Science and Technolegal
Debates in the BP Oil Spill. In Black Beaches and Bayous: The BP Deepwater Horizon
Oil Spill, Lisa Eargle and Ashraf Esmail, eds. Lanhmam, MD: University Press of America.