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, Michae

• ISBN13: 9780759109780
• ISBN10: 0759109788
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-15
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

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 o 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

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
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