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Altamira Press
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Subjects
Safety measures, Health risk assessment, Consumer protection, Social aspects, Consumer Participation, Economic Competition, Consumer goods, Health aspects, Public Policy, Consumer Product Safety

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Killer commodities: consumer products and public health
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Table of 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 Pam 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 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 Dietrich
Inverting the killer commodity model: withholding medicines from the poor / Michael Westerhaus and Arachu Castro
Killer commodities and vulnerable people: fighting for change / Hans Baer & Merrill Singer.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Lanham, Md

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Dewey Decimal Class
362.1028/9
Library of Congress
RA427.3 .K45 2008

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p. ;

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OL19999500M
Internet Archive
killercommoditie00baer
ISBN 10
0759109788, 0759109796
ISBN 13
9780759109780, 9780759109797
LCCN
2008009561
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4190626

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