Killer Commodities Public Health and the Corporate Production of Harm
by Singer, Merrill; Baer, Hans A.; Abadie, Roberto; Castro, Arachu; Cheney, Ann M.; Dietrich, Alexa S.; Erickson, Pamela I.; Hackett, Martine; Howard, Jeff; Livingston, Martha; Love, Terence; McKenna, Brian; Oldani, Michael; Paluzzi, Joan; Westerhaus, MichaeFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-08-07
Publisher(s): AltaMira Press
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Summary
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 a 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. Book jacket.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction: Hidden Harm: The Complex World of Killer Commodities | p. 1 |
| Home Commodities | |
| Stealthy Killers and Governing Mentalities: Chemicals in Consumer Products | p. 35 |
| Nothing to Play Around With: Dangerous Toys for Girls and Boys | p. 67 |
| The Environmental and Health Consequences of Motor Vehicles: A Case Study in Capitalist Technological Hegemony and Grassroots Responses to It | p. 95 |
| Lay Me Down to Sleep: SIDS, Suffocation, and the Selling of Risk Reduction | p. 119 |
| Melanoma Whitewash: Millions at Risk of Injury or Death Because of Sunscreen Deceptions | p. 145 |
| Building with Poison: Toxicity and CCA-Treated Lumber | p. 175 |
| Medical and Pharmaceutical Commodities | |
| U.S. Health Care: Commodification Kills | p. 205 |
| Silicone Seduction: Are Cosmetic Breast Implants Killer Commodities? | p. 225 |
| Selling Sickness/Creating Demand: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs | p. 255 |
| Deadly Embrace: Psychoactive Medication, Psychiatry, and the Pharmaceutical Industry | p. 283 |
| A Guinea Pig's Wage: Risk and Commoditization in Pharmaceutical Research in America | p. 311 |
| Corrosion in the System: The Community Health By-Products of Pharmaceutical Production in Northern Puerto Rico | p. 335 |
| Inverting the Killer Commodity Model: Withholding Medicines from the Poor | p. 367 |
| Conclusion: Killer Commodities and Society: Fighting for Change | p. 399 |
| Index | p. 417 |
| About the Contributors | p. 421 |
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