Killer commodities : public health and the corporate production of harm / edited by Merrill Singer and Hans Baer
- Published
- Lanham : AltaMira Press, [2009]
- Copyright Date
- ©2009
- Physical Description
- x, 428 pages ; 24 cm
- Additional Creators
- Singer, Merrill and Baer, Hans A., 1944-
- 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 -- and 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.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780759109780 (cloth : alk. paper)
0759109788 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780759109797 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0759109796 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780759112407 (electronic)
0759112401 (electronic) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of Acquisition
- Harrisburg copy: Purchased with funds from the Highmark Blue Shield Education Fund; 20089.
- Endowment Note
- Highmark Blue Shield Education Fund
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