Taking Action, Saving Lives
Subtitle: Our Duties to Protect Environmental and Public Health (Environmental Ethics and Science Policy)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: September 19, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780195325461
Subjects: Personal & public health; Political activism; Pollution & threats to the environment; Social impact of environmental issues; Preventive Medicine; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Health Care Delivery; Public Health; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection; Environmental Science; Environmental Health; Moral and ethical aspects
Description: "The U.S. government says industrial and agricultural toxins cause at least 10 percent of cancer deaths - 60,000 of 600,000 annually in the United States - and environmentalists put the figure even higher. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control say avoidable U.S. pollution annually costs citizens $13 billion from asthma, $351 billion from cardiovascular disease, and $240 billion from occupational disease and injury." "Why is government not protecting people? In this compelling, disturbing, yet highly readable book, Shrader-Frechette shows how campaign contributions, lobbyists and their control of media, advertisements, and PR can all conspire to manipulate scientific information, withhold data, cover-up pollution-related disease and death, and "capture" regulators. The result is often the best science, politicians, and policy - that money can buy." "Warning against scapegoating any groups, Shrader-Frechette puts the blame - and the solution - squarely on the shoulders of ordinary citizens. She shows how and why virtually everyone in a democracy has justice-based duties to help prevent avoidable, environment-related deaths."--Jacket.