Sylvia Noble Tesh, born 1937, is an American academic, professor at Yale and the University of Michigan for over two decades, and currently a professor at the University of Arizona. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Hawaii in political science. She also served as a Fulbright professor at the Universidade Federal da Bahia, in Salvador, Brazil, in 1999. She is best known for her well-cited book Hidden Arguments: Political Ideology and Disease Prevention Policy. Her most recent book, Uncertain Hazards Environmental Activists and Scientific Proof, was published in 2000 by Cornell University Press.
Selected bibliography
Tesh, Sylvia Noble. "Environment, Science, and Culture" Chapter in the book: Environmental Crisis Or Crisis of Epistemology?: Working for Sustainable Knowledge and Environmental Justice : 35. Publisher Morgan James Publishing, 2011, 9781600371431
Tesh, Sylvia Noble. "A call for citizen empowerment." American Scientist 96.1 : 66-68. DOI: 10.2307/27859092. volume 96, issue 1. 2008.
Tesh, Sylvia Noble. "Transforming Environmentalism: Warren County, PCBs, and the Origins of Environmental Justice." : 566-568.
Tesh, Sylvia Noble, and Eduardo Paes-Machado. "Sewers, garbage, and environmentalism in Brazil." The Journal of Environment & Development 13.1 : 42-72. DOI: 10.1177/1070496503260971. volume 13, issue 1. 2004.
Tesh, Sylvia Noble, and Bruce A. Williams. "Identity politics, disinterested politics, and environmental justice." Polity 28.3 : 285-305. DOI: 10.2307/3235374. volume 28, issue 3. 1996
Tesh, Sylvia Noble. "Miasma and “social factors” in disease causality: Lessons from the nineteenth century." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 20.4 : 1001-1024.
Tesh, Sylvia Noble. "Causal debates in environmentalism." Journal of public health policy 15.3 : 298-309. DOI: 10.2307/3342907. volume 15, issue 3. 1994
Tesh, Sylvia Noble. Hidden Arguments: Political Ideology and Disease Prevention Policy .
Tesh, Sylvia Noble, Carolyn Tuohy, Tom Christoffel, Trevor Hancock, Judy Norsigian, Elena Nightingale, and Leon Robertson. "The meaning of healthy public policy." Health Promotion International 2, no. 3 : 257-262. volume 2, issue 3. 1987. DOI: 10.1093/heapro/2.3.257.
Tesh, Sylvia Noble. "Health education in Cuba: A preface." International journal of health services 16.1 : 87-104. DOI: 10.2190/HAA9-DU1Q-0QJR-4JE9. volume 16, issue 1. 1986
Tesh, Sylvia Noble. "In support of" single-issue" politics." Political Science Quarterly 99.1 : 27-44. DOI: 10.2307/2150257. volume 99, issue 1. 1984
Tesh, Sylvia Noble. "The politics of stress: the case of air traffic control." International journal of health services 14.4 : 569-587. DOI: 10.2190/JH2E-F62P-WMX8-7NQF. volume 14, issue 4. 1984
Tesh, Sylvia Noble. The Second Sickness: Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care. Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law. DOI: 10.1215/03616878-9-2-336. volume 9, issue 2. 1984
Tesh, Sylvia Noble. Political Ideology and Public Health in the Nineteenth Century. International Journal of Health Services. DOI: 10.2190/4REP-0NGX-H2LA-E0AF. volume 12, issue 2. 1982
Tesh, Sylvia Noble. "Disease causality and politics." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 6.3 : 369-390.
Tesh, Sylvia Noble. “The Politics of Public Health Ideology and Disease Causality.” University of Hawaii, 1980.
Tesh, Sylvia, and Saltman, Richard B. "Process in Human Service Agencies."
