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• Title:Killer commodities : public health and the corporate production of harm / edited by Merrill Singer and Hans Baer.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Singer, Merrill.
  Baer, Hans A., 1944-
  
• Published/Created:Lanham, Md. : Altamira Press, ©2009.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WA288 .K48 2009
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Health risk assessment.
  Consumer goods--Health aspects.
  Consumer goods--Safety measures.
  Consumer goods--Social aspects.
  Consumer protection.
  
• Medical Subjects: Consumer Product Safety.
  Community Participation.
  Economic Competition.
  Public Policy.
  
• Description:x, 428 p. ; 23 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0759109796 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  9780759109780 (cloth : alk. paper)
  0759109788 (cloth : alk. paper)
  9780759109797 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Hidden harm: an introduction to 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. Eickson
  The environmental and health consequences of motor vehicles: a case study in capitalist technological hegemony and grass-roots 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 / Terrence Love
  U.S. health care: commodification kills / Martha Livingston
  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
  Risky scripts: ethnographic notes on SSRIs, suicidality, and family life in North America / 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
  Killer commodities and society: fighting for change / Hans Baer and Merrill Singer.