| Description |
x, 428 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Hidden harm: the complex world of killer commodities / Merrill Singer and Hans Baer -- Stealthy killers and governing mentalities: chemicals in consumer products / Edward J. Woodhouse and Jeff Howard -- Nothing to play around with: dangerous toys for girls and boys / Merrill Singer and Pamela I. Erickson -- The environmental and health consequences of motor vehicles: a case study in capitalist technological hegemony and grassroots responses to it / Hans Baer -- Lay me down to sleep: SIDS, suffocation, and the selling of risk / Martine Hackett -- Melanoma whitewash: millions at risk of injury or death because of sunscreen deceptions / Brian McKenna -- Building with poison: toxicity and CCA-treated lumber / Terence Love -- U.S. health care: commodification kills / Martha Livingston -- |
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Silicone seduction: are cosmetic breast implants killer commodities? / Pamela I. Erickson and Ann M. Cheney -- Selling sickness/creating demand: direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs / Joan E. Paluzzi -- Deadly embrace: psychoactive medication, psychiatry, and the pharmaceutical industry / Michael Oldani -- A guinea pig's wage: risk and commoditization in pharmaceutical research in America / Roberto Abadie -- Corrosion in the system: the community health by-products of pharmaceutical production in northern Puerto Rico / Alexa S. Dietrich -- Inverting the killer commodity model: withholding medicines from the poor / Michael Westerhaus and Arachu Castro -- Conclusion: Killer commodities and society: fighting for change / Hans Baer and Merrill Singer |
| Summary |
"Killer Commodities enters the increasingly heated debate regarding consumer culture with a critical examination of the relationship between public health and the corporate production of goods for profit. This collection analyzes the nature and public health impact of o wide range of dangerous commercial products from around the world, and it addresses the question of how policies should be changed to better protect the public, workers, and the environment."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Health risk assessment.
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Consumer goods -- Health aspects.
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Consumer goods -- Safety measures.
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Consumer goods -- Social aspects.
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Consumer protection.
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Consumer Product Safety.
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Community Participation.
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Economic Competition.
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Public Policy.
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| Author |
Singer, Merrill.
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Baer, Hans A., 1944-
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| LC no. |
2008009561 |
| ISBN |
9780759109780 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0759109788 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780759109797 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0759109796 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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