Killer commodities
Subtitle: public health and the corporate production of harm
By: edited by Merrill Singer and Hans Baer.
Contributors: Singer, Merrill.; Baer, Hans A., 1944-
Publisher: Altamira Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780759109780; 9780759109797
Subjects: Health risk assessment; Consumer goods -- Health aspects; Consumer goods -- Safety measures; Consumer goods -- Social aspects; Consumer protection; Consumer Product Safety; Consumer Participation; Economic Competition; Public Policy
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Hidden harm: an introduction to the complex world of killer commodities / Merrill Singer and Hans Baer; title: Stealthy killers and governing mentalities: chemicals in consumer products / Edward J. Woodhouse and Jeff Howard; title: Nothing to play around with: dangerous toys for girls and boys / Merrill Singer and Pam Eickson; title: The environmental and health consequences of motor vehicles: a case study in capitalist technological hegemony and grass-roots responses to it / Hans Baer; title: Lay me down to sleep: SIDS, suffocation, and the selling of risk / Martine Hackett; title: Melanoma whitewash: millions at risk of injury or death because of sunscreen deceptions / Brian McKenna; title: Building with poison: toxicity and CCA-treated lumber / Terrence Love; title: U.S. health care: commodification kills / Martha Livingston; title: Silicone seduction: are cosmetic breast implants killer commodities? / Pamela I. Erickson and Ann M. Cheney; title: Selling sickness/creating demand: direct-to-consumer-advertising of prescription drugs / Joan Paluzzi; title: Risky scripts: ethnographic notes on SSRIs, suicidality, and family life in North America / Michael Oldani; title: A guinea pig's wage: risk and commoditization in pharmaceutical research in America / Roberto Abadie; title: Corrosion in the system: the community health by-products of pharmaceutical production in northern Puerto Rico / Alexa Dietrich; title: Inverting the killer commodity model: withholding medicines from the poor / Michael Westerhaus and Arachu Castro; title: Killer commodities and vulnerable people: fighting for change / Hans Baer & Merrill Singer.