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1010823
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b765193
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Killer commodities : : public health and the corporate production of harm /\ edited by Merrill Singer and Hans Baer.
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| Publication Statement
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Lanham :: AltaMira Press,, ©2009.
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x, 428 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0759109788
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: 0759109796
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: 0759112401
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: 9780759109780
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: 9780759109797
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: 9780759112407
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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"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."--Jacket.
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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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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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Gesundheitsgefährdung
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Gewinnstreben
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Health risk assessment.
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Marktwirtschaft
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Verbraucherschutz
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Gesundheitsgefährdung.
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Gewinnstreben.
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Marktwirtschaft.
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Verbraucherschutz.
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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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| Dewey Classification
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362.1028/9
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| LC Classification
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RA427.3.K45 2009
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2008 L-363
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WA 288K48 2009
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X384clc
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| Added Entry
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Baer, Hans A.,1944-
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Singer, Merrill.
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