Killer commodities

Public Health and the Corporate Production of Harm
Herausgeber: Baer, Hans A.; Singer, Merrill

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Produktbeschreibung

Killer Commodities addresses the impact of harmful products on consumers throughout the world. These case studies highlight the processes of production and marketing of these products, as well as the nature of relevant public health policies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 442
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 827g
• ISBN-13: 9780759109780
• ISBN-10: 0759109788
• Artikelnr.: 24467487

Autorenporträt

Merrill Singer is a senior researcher at the Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention (CHIP) and a professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, as well as a research affiliate of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) at Yale University. Hans Baer is lecturer in the School of Anthropology, Geography, and Environmental Studies and the Centre for Health and Society at the University of Melbourne

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Hidden Harm: The Complex World of Killer
Commodities Chapter 2 Stealthy Killers and Governing Mentalities: Chemicals
in Consumer Products Chapter 3 Nothing to Play Around With: Dangerous Toys
for Girls and Boys Chapter 4 The Environmental and Health Consequences of
Motor Vehicles: A Case Study in Capitalist Technological Hegemony and
Grass-Roots Responses to It Chapter 5 Lay Me Down to Sleep: SIDS,
Suffocation, and the Selling of Risk Reduction Chapter 6 Melanoma
Whitewash: Millions at Risk of Injury or Death because of Sunscreen
Deceptions Chapter 7 Building with Poison: Toxicity and CCA-treated Lumber
Chapter 8 U.S. Health Care: Commodification Kills Chapter 9 Silicone
Seduction: Are Cosmetic Breast Implants Killer Commodities? Chapter 10
Selling Sickness/Creating Demand: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of
Prescription Drugs Chapter 11 Deadly Embrace: Psychoactive Medication,
Psychiatry, and the Pharmaceutical Industry Chapter 12 A Guinea Pig's Wage:
Risk and Commoditization in Pharmaceutical Research in America Chapter 13
Corrosion in the System: The Community Health By-Products of Pharmaceutical
Production in Northern Puerto Rico Chapter 14 Inverting the Killer
Commodity Model: Withholding Medicines from the Poor Chapter 15 Conclusion:
Killer Commodities and Society: Fighting for Change