Carl F Cranor

Tragic Failures

How and Why We Are Harmed by Toxic Chemicals

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A world awash in little understood chemicals tragically harms adults and children alike. Laws keep health agencies in the dark about toxicants, slow, well motivated research hampers protections, and strenuous vested opposition exacerbates the harm. How science is used in the tort law can facilitate or frustrate redress of harm. This book recommends better approaches.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 180mm x 130mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780190635756
• ISBN-10: 0190635754
• Artikelnr.: 47864105

Autorenporträt

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, and Faculty member of the Environmental Toxicology Graduate Group, University of California Riverside. Author of Regulating Toxic Substances (OUP 1993), Legally Poisoned: How the Law Puts Us at Risk from Toxicants (Harvard 2013), Toxic Torts: Science, Law and the Possibility of Justice (CUP 2006)

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Introduction
* Chapter 1: Industrial Chemicals as Nuisances: The Rise of
Environmental Health Laws and Their Limitations
* Chapter 2: Cancers, Brain Disorders, and the Feminization of Boys:
Can We Avoid Poisoning Our Children? . .
* Chapter 3: How Do Obscure Supreme Court Decisions Affect Me?
* Chapter 4: How Demands for Ideal Science Undermine the Public's
Health
* Chapter 5: Conclusion