Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

Killer Commodities

Public Health and the Corporate Production of Harm

Av Merrill Singer, Hans A. Baer

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Beskrivning

Killer Commodities enters the increasingly heated debate regarding consumer culture with a critical examination of the relationship between corporate production of goods for profit and for public health. 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.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2008-08-15
Mått: 160 x 237 x 22 mm
Vikt: 821 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 438
Förlag: AltaMira Press
ISBN: 9780759109780

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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

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Singer and call for more consumer advocacy and less deregulation of industry, as well as a balance between regulatory agencies and industries. They point out that some industries may have too much oversight, that is, monitored by several agencies, which obscures jurisdiction.

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