No Safe Place

Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action

Autor: Phil Brown, Edwin J. Mikkelsen

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: University of California Press

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Toxic waste, contaminated water, cancer clusters--these phrases suggest deception and irresponsibili...

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Autor

Phil Brown, Edwin J. Mikkelsen

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

1997

strony

284

EAN

9780520212480

ISBN

0520212487

Enbook ID

04616323

Wydawca

University of California Press

Waga

408

Wymiary

152 x 229 x 18

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Toxic waste, contaminated water, cancer clusters--these phrases suggest deception and irresponsibility. But more significantly, they are watchwords for a growing struggle between communities, corporations, and government. In No Safe Place, sociologists, public policy professionals, and activists will learn how residents of Woburn, Massachusetts discovered a childhood leukemia cluster and eventually sued two corporate giants. Their story gives rise to questions important to any concerned citizen: What kind of government regulatory action can control pollution? Just how effective can the recent upsurge of popular participation in science and technology be? Phil Brown, a medical sociologist, and Edwin Mikkelsen, psychiatric consultant to the plaintiffs, look at the Woburn experience in light of similar cases, such as Love Canal, in order to show that toxic waste contamination reveals fundamental flaws in the corporate, governmental, and scientific spheres. The authors strike a humane, constructive note amidst chilling odds, advocating extensive lay involvement based on the Woburn model of civic action. Finally, they propose a safe policy for toxic wastes and governmental/corporate responsibility. Woburn, the authors predict, will become a code word for environmental struggles.

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