CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Key Events Timeline for Nocorá's Environmental Health; List of Acronyms; A Note on Pseudonyms; Introduction: Understanding PoliticalEcologies of Risk in Puerto Rico; Little by Little; 1 The Dose Makes the Poison:How Making Drugs Harms Environments and People; Progress; 2 In the Beginning Was the Corporation:Progress, Pollution, and the Public Trust; Playing Politics; 3 The Rituals and Consequencesof Community Politics and Dissent; "Fresh Minds" on Parade; 4 Environmental Justice Is Not Always Just; Good Neighbors (A Conversation)
5 The Pharmaceutical Industryand the Problem of "Stakeholders""Salud te recomienda"; 6 Radical Redistributions of Knowledge:A Holistic View of Environmental Health; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Summary
""This fascinating and most timely critical medical anthropology study successfully binds two still emergent areas of contemporary anthropological research in the global world: the nature and significant impact of multinational pharmaceutical manufacturers on human social life everywhere, and the contribution of corporations to the fast-paced degradation of our life support system, planet Earth. ... Focusing on a pharmaceutically-impacted town on the colonized island of Puerto Rico, Dietrich ably demonstrates the value of ethnography carried out in small places in framing the large issues fa
