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Killer commodities : public health and the corporate production of harm

Title
Killer commodities : public health and the corporate production of harm / edited by Merrill Singer and Hans Baer.
Publication
Lanham : AltaMira Press, [2009], ©2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Singer, Merrill.
  • Baer, Hans A., 1944-
Description
x, 428 pages; 23 cm
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.
Subject
  • Health risk assessment
  • Consumer goods > Health aspects
  • Consumer goods > Safety measures
  • Consumer goods > Social aspects
  • Consumer protection
  • Consumer Product Safety
  • Community Participation
  • Economic Competition
  • Public Policy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction. Hidden Harm: The Complex World of Killer Commodities / Merrill Singer and Hans Baer -- Pt. 1. Home Commodities -- Ch. 1. Stealthy Killers and Governing Mentalities: Chemicals in Consumer Products / Edward J. Woodhouse and Jeff Howard -- Ch. 2. Nothing to Play Around With: Dangerous Toys for Girls and Boys / Merrill Singer and Pamela I. Erickson -- Ch. 3. The Environmental and Health Consequences of Motor Vehicles: A Case Study in Capitalist Technological Hegemony and Grassroots Responses to It / Hans Baer -- Ch. 4. Lay Me Down to Sleep: SIDS, Suffocation, and the Selling of Risk Reduction / Martine Hackett -- Ch. 5. Melanoma Whitewash: Millions at Risk of Injury or Death Because of Sunscreen Deceptions / Brian McKenna -- Ch. 6. Building with Poison: Toxicity and CCA-Treated Lumber / Terence Love -- Pt. 2. Medical and Pharmaceutical Commodities -- Ch. 7. U.S. Health Care: Commodification Kills / Martha Livingston -- Ch. 8. Silicone Seduction: Are Cosmetic Breast Implants Killer Commodities? / Pamela I. Erickson and Ann M. Cheney -- Ch. 9. Selling Sickness/Creating Demand: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs / Joan E. Paluzzi -- Ch. 10. Deadly Embrace: Psychoactive Medication, Psychiatry, and the Pharmaceutical Industry / Michael Oldani -- Ch. 11. A Guinea Pig's Wage: Risk and Commoditization in Pharmaceutical Research in America / Roberto Abadie -- Ch. 12. Corrosion in the System: The Community Health By-Products of Pharmaceutical Production in Northern Puerto Rico / Alexa S. Dietrich -- Ch. 13. 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.
ISBN
  • 9780759109780 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0759109788 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780759109797 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0759109796 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2008009561
OCLC
  • ocn213008072
  • 213008072
  • SCSB-5427583
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries