Killer commodities

Public Health and the Corporate Production of Harm
Herausgeber: Singer, Merrill; Baer, Hans A.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Killer Commodities addresses the impact of harmful products on consumers throughout the world. These case studies highlight the processes of production and marketing of these products, as well as the nature of relevant public health policies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 442
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 825g
• ISBN-13: 9780759109780
• ISBN-10: 0759109788
• Artikelnr.: 24467487

Autorenporträt

Merrill Singer is a senior researcher at the Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention (CHIP) and a professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, as well as a research affiliate of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) at Yale University. Hans Baer is lecturer in the School of Anthropology, Geography, and Environmental Studies and the Centre for Health and Society at the University of Melbourne

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Hidden Harm: The Complex World of Killer
Commodities
Chapter 2 Stealthy Killers and Governing Mentalities: Chemicals in Consumer
Products
Chapter 3 Nothing to Play Around With: Dangerous Toys for Girls and Boys
Chapter 4 The Environmental and Health Consequences of Motor Vehicles: A
Case Study in Capitalist Technological Hegemony and Grass-Roots Responses
to It
Chapter 5 Lay Me Down to Sleep: SIDS, Suffocation, and the Selling of Risk
Reduction
Chapter 6 Melanoma Whitewash: Millions at Risk of Injury or Death because
of Sunscreen Deceptions
Chapter 7 Building with Poison: Toxicity and CCA-treated Lumber
Chapter 8 U.S. Health Care: Commodification Kills
Chapter 9 Silicone Seduction: Are Cosmetic Breast Implants Killer
Commodities?
Chapter 10 Selling Sickness/Creating Demand: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising
of Prescription Drugs
Chapter 11 Deadly Embrace: Psychoactive Medication, Psychiatry, and the
Pharmaceutical Industry
Chapter 12 A Guinea Pig's Wage: Risk and Commoditization in Pharmaceutical
Research in America
Chapter 13 Corrosion in the System: The Community Health By-Products of
Pharmaceutical Production in Northern Puerto Rico
Chapter 14 Inverting the Killer Commodity Model: Withholding Medicines from
the Poor
Chapter 15 Conclusion: Killer Commodities and Society: Fighting for Change