Research Catalog

Title

The dirty dozen : toxic chemicals and the earth's future / Bruce E. Johansen

Author

Johansen, Bruce E. (Bruce Elliott), 1950-

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c2003.

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Description

ix, 297 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"This study examines the history, industrial uses, and harmful effects of the twelve most commonly used organochloride chemicals. All have been fully or partially banned by the Stockholm Protocol, an international treaty signed by about 120 countries in December 2000. Among the twelve are the dioxins (the active ingredient in Agent Orange) and polychlorinated byphenyls (PCBs), which are toxic in minute quantities. Johansen pays special attention to the Inuit of the Arctic, where these chemicals have been bio-accumulating to dangerous levels, moving up the food chain to a degree of toxicity that some Inuit mothers are no longer able to safely breast-feed their infants."--Jacket.

Subject

• Carcinogens
• Environmental Pollutants > adverse effects
• Heterocyclic Compounds > adverse effects
• Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated
• Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated > adverse effects
• Insecticides > adverse effects
• Organochlorine compounds > Environmental aspects
• Organochlorine compounds > Health aspects
• Persistent pollutants > Environmental aspects
• Persistent pollutants > Health aspects
• Teratogens

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-289) and index.

Contents

Persistent organic pollutants : the basics -- "We feel like an endangered species" : toxics in the Arctic -- CFCs, global warming, and ozone depletion -- The chemical industry, nonwhite communities, and the Third World -- Belugas with tumors : the toxic toll on animals -- End of the line : the dirty dozen and human health -- Toxic Barbie? : not your great-grandmother's estrogen -- Solutions : public policy issues.

ISBN

0275977021 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002029872

OCLC

50403785

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library