000326466 000__ 02761cam\a22003614a\4500 000326466 001__ 326466 000326466 005__ 20210513120901.0 000326466 008__ 080229s2009\\\\mdu\\\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000326466 010__ $$a 2008009561 000326466 020__ $$a9780759109797 (pbk. : alk. paper) 000326466 020__ $$a0759109796 (pbk. : alk. paper) 000326466 020__ $$a9780759109780 (alk. paper) 000326466 020__ $$a0759109788 (alk. paper) 000326466 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn213008072 000326466 035__ $$a326466 000326466 040__ $$aDNLM/DLC$$cDLC$$dNLM$$dYDXCP$$dBTCTA$$dBAKER$$dC#P$$dCDX$$dBWX 000326466 042__ $$apcc 000326466 049__ $$aISEA 000326466 05000 $$aRA427.3$$b.K45 2009 000326466 08200 $$a362.1028/9$$222 000326466 24500 $$aKiller commodities :$$bpublic health and the corporate production of harm /$$cedited by Merrill Singer and Hans Baer. 000326466 260__ $$aLanham :$$bAltaMira Press,$$cc2009. 000326466 300__ $$ax, 428 p. ;$$c23 cm. 000326466 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000326466 5050_ $$aIntroduction: Hidden harm: the complex world of killer commodities / Merrill Singer and Hans Baer -- Stealthy killers and governing mentalities: chemicals in consumer products / Edward J. Woodhouse and Jeff Howard -- Nothing to play around with: dangerous toys for girls and boys / Merrill Singer and Pamela I. Erickson -- The environmental and health consequences of motor vehicles: a case study in capitalist technological hegemony and grassroots responses to it / Hans Baer -- Lay me down to sleep: SIDS, suffocation, and the selling of risk / Martine Hackett -- Melanoma whitewash: millions at risk of injury or death because of sunscreen deceptions / Brian McKenna -- Building with poison: toxicity and CCA-treated lumber / Terence Love -- U.S. health care: commodification kills / Martha Livingston -- 000326466 5050_ $$aSilicone seduction: are cosmetic breast implants killer commodities? / Pamela I. Erickson and Ann M. Cheney -- Selling sickness/creating demand: direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs / Joan E. Paluzzi -- Deadly embrace: psychoactive medication, psychiatry, and the pharmaceutical industry / Michael Oldani -- A guinea pig's wage: risk and commoditization in pharmaceutical research in America / Roberto Abadie -- Corrosion in the system: the community health by-products of pharmaceutical production in northern Puerto Rico / Alexa S. Dietrich -- Inverting the killer commodity model: withholding medicines from the poor / Michael Westerhaus and Arachu Castro -- Conclusion: Killer commodities and society: fighting for change / Hans Baer and Merrill Singer. 000326466 650_0 $$aHealth risk assessment. 000326466 650_0 $$aConsumer goods$$xHealth aspects. 000326466 650_0 $$aConsumer goods$$xSafety measures. 000326466 650_0 $$aConsumer goods$$xSocial aspects. 000326466 650_0 $$aConsumer protection. 000326466 7001_ $$aSinger, Merrill. 000326466 7001_ $$aBaer, Hans A.,$$d1944- 000326466 85200 $$bgen$$hRA427.3$$i.K45$$i2009 000326466 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:326466$$pGLOBAL_SET 000326466 980__ $$aBIB 000326466 980__ $$aBOOK