Ecocide in the U. S. S. R. : Health and Nature under Siege

by FESHBACH,M

• ISBN13: 9780465016648
• ISBN10: 0465016642
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Publisher: NACSCORP

Summary

A look at the impending health and environmental disasters in the Soviet Union discusses the shortage of appropriate surgical instruments, the dangerous concentration of pollution in some cities, the prevalent use of the banned pesticide DDT, and more. National ad/promo.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Facing Facts	p. 1
Shortened Lives, Needless Deaths	p. 4
Vicious Synergy: Pollution and Disease	p. 8
Chernobyl: The Glasnost Fallout	p. 11
From Subjects to Activists	p. 14
Protest by the Volga	p. 16
Onto the Streets	p. 18
From Protest to Power	p. 21
Beginnings of Wisdom	p. 23
Birth of the Future	p. 27
The Whip of Necessity	p. 30
Science Subservient	p. 31
Socialism Versus the Louse	p. 34
A Duty to Health	p. 36
The Plan: Agent of Destruction	p. 39
False Fronts and Self-deception	p. 43
Harvests of Neglect	p. 49
As Ye Sow	p. 50
A Stinking Ruin	p. 54
Ill Fares the Land	p. 57
Contamination for Mass Consumption	p. 60
Preference for Poison	p. 64
Back to (Human) Nature	p. 68
A Sea of Troubles	p. 73
Deaths at an Early Age	p. 76
Resentment Rising	p. 82
Dark, Satanic Mills	p. 91
The Shroud of Pollution	p. 94
Siberian Wastes and Wastelands	p. 98
Death Traps in the Rust Belt	p. 100
No Place to Hide	p. 103
Politics, Economics and Pollution	p. 106
Water Torture	p. 113
"Conserve This Glorious Sea"	p. 116
Wasting Away	p. 120
Currents of Contamination	p. 123
Last Resorts	p. 126
"...Plus Electrification"	p. 133
Rocks and Hard Places	p. 136
"We Simply Squander Energy"	p. 140
"We Need a Propagandist"	p. 143
Chernobyl: Costs of Cataclysm	p. 146
Mind over Matter	p. 148
Coverup and Controversy	p. 150
The Wages of Fear	p. 152
"Letting the Chips Fly"	p. 154
Crippled Giant	p. 157
Sick Call	p. 162
Mayhem in Uniform	p. 165
Military Medicine: An Oxymoron?	p. 167
Hoist by Its Own Petard	p. 170
Up in Arms	p. 175
Gathering Ills	p. 181
Environment and Health	p. 183
Losing Ground	p. 185
Drinking and Dying	p. 187
New Ills, Old Strategies	p. 189
Short-changed	p. 193
Opiates for the Masses	p. 196
Failing According to Plan	p. 199
There Ought to Be a Law	p. 201
Cradle to Grave	p. 205
Siege Conditions	p. 206
Desperate Remedies	p. 208
A Woman's Story	p. 209
Motherhood and Its Discontents	p. 212
Equal Rights, Unequal Burdens	p. 215
Handicapped Healers	p. 217
Unarmed, Maybe Dangerous	p. 221
Prognosis Guarded	p. 223
The People Speak	p. 229
Greening Around the Edges	p. 231
Ready for Prime Time	p. 233
Brushfires at the Grass Roots	p. 237
Fighting City Hall	p. 239
All Power to the Soviets!	p. 244
Things Fall Apart	p. 247
A Time to Heal	p. 251
Environmental Economics	p. 253
The Prices of Cleanup	p. 256
First Things First	p. 258
Rx for Health	p. 260
Whence Cometh My Help	p. 264
Appendix	p. 269
Notes	p. 305
Selected Bibliography	p. 359
Index	p. 365
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