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  title info:
    title: Killer commodities
    sub title: public health and the corporate production of harm
  name:
    name part: Singer, Merrill.
  name:
    name part: Baer, Hans A.
    name part: 1944-
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 428 pages ; 24 cm.
  table of contents: Introduction : Hidden harm : the complex world of killer commodities -- Stealthy killers and governing mentalities : chemicals in consumer products -- Nothing to play around with : dangerous toys for girls and boys -- The environmental and health consequences of motor vehicles : a case study in capitalist technological hegemony and grassroots responses to it -- Lay me down to sleep : SIDS, suffocation, and the selling of risk -- Melanoma whitewash : millions at risk of injury or death because of sunscreen deceptions -- Building with poison : toxicity and CCA-treated lumber -- U.S. health care : commodification kills
  table of contents: Silicone seduction : are cosmetic breast implants killer commodities? -- Selling sickness/creating demand : direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs -- Deadly embrace : psychoactive medication, psychiatry, and the pharmaceutical industry -- A guinea pig's wage : risk and commoditization in pharmaceutical research in America -- Corrosion in the system : the community health by-products of pharmaceutical production in northern Puerto Rico -- Inverting the killer commodity model : withholding medicines from the poor -- Conclusion : Killer commodities and society : fighting for change
  note: edited by Merrill Singer and Hans Baer.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Health risk assessment
  subject:
    topic: Consumer goods
    topic: Health aspects
  subject:
    topic: Consumer goods
    topic: Safety measures
  subject:
    topic: Consumer goods
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Consumer protection
  subject:
    topic: Consumer Product Safety
  subject:
    topic: Community Participation
  subject:
    topic: Economic Competition
  subject:
    topic: Public Policy
  classification: RA427.3 .K45 2009
  classification: 362.1028/9
  classification: 2008 L-363
  classification: WA 288 K48 2009
  identifier: 9780759109780 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0759109788 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780759109797 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0759109796 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2008009561
  record info:
    record content source: DNLM/DLC
    record creation date: 080229
    record change date: 20191204153338.0
    record identifier: in00004509549