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Killer commodities :

(Number (ISBN

0759109788

(Number (ISBN

0759109796

(Number (ISBN

0759112401

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9780759109780

(Number (ISBN

9780759109797

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9780759112407

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b765193

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Killer commodities :

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[Book]

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public health and the corporate production of harm /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Merrill Singer and Hans Baer.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Lanham :

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AltaMira Press,

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©2009.

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x, 428 pages ;

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24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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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"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.

Consumer goods-- Health aspects.

Consumer goods-- Safety measures.

Consumer goods-- Social aspects.

Consumer protection.

Health risk assessment.

Community Participation.

Consumer Product Safety.

Economic Competition.

Public Policy.

Consumer goods-- Health aspects.

Consumer goods-- Safety measures.

Consumer goods-- Social aspects.

Consumer protection.

Gesundheitsgefährdung

Gesundheitsgefährdung.

Gewinnstreben

Gewinnstreben.

Health risk assessment.

Marktwirtschaft

Marktwirtschaft.

Verbraucherschutz

Verbraucherschutz.

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Baer, Hans A.,1944-

Singer, Merrill.

Date of Transaction

20201206104801.0

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