Title: Reclaiming the environmental debate : the politics of health in a toxic culture /
Authors: Hofrichter, Richard
Publisher: MIT Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Public Policy; Environmental Health; Environmental health Political aspects.; Environmental justice.; Environmental health Government policy.; Green movement; United States
Contents: Introduction: critical perspectives on human health and the environment / Richard Hofrichter -- The social production of cancer: a walk upstream / Sandra Steingraber -- Deconstructing standards, reconstructing worker health / Charles Levenstein and John Wooding -- Brownfields and the redevelopment of communities: linking health, economy, and justice / William Shutkin and Rafael Mares -- Place matters / Mindy Thompson Fullilove and Robert E. Fullilove III -- Akwesasne: a Native American community's resistance to cultural and environmental damage / Alice Tarbell and Mary Arquette -- When harm is not necessary: risk assessment as diversion / Mary H. O'Brien -- The ecological tyranny of the bottom line: the environmental and social consequences of economic reductionism / John Bellamy Foster -- Silencing spring: corporate propaganda and the takeover of the environmental movement / Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber -- The globalization of corporate culture and its role in the environmental crisis / Joshua Karliner -- Selling "Mother Earth": advertising and the myth of the natural / Robin Andersen -- Green living in a toxic world: the pitfalls and promises of everyday environmentalism / Marcy Darnovsky -- Rethinking technoscience in risk society: toxicity as textuality / Timothy W. Luke -- Silencing the voice of the people: how mining companies subvert local opposition / Al Gedicks -- Bearing witness or taking action?: toxic tourism and environmental justice / Giovanna Di Chiro -- For generations yet to come: Junebug Productions' environmental justice project / John O'Neal -- Media art and activism: a model for collective action / Branda Miller.