Bridging the great divide: environmental health and the environmental movement.(Inside the Profession)

From: Journal of Environmental Health | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Picture a Journal of Environmental Health (JEH) staff member, off-duty, at a party. It's a big party, full of people who don't know each other and who keep asking each other what they "do." Every time our heroine says she works for JEH, faces light up.

"Really?"

"That's so cool."

"How did you break in?"

People like her. They introduce her to their children as a role model. She's the real thing, someone who makes a living doing good for the planet.

It's tempting to bask, but she feels honor bound to explain that she's not quite what they think. At the words ...

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