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How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace
This book reveals the hidden health dangers in many of the seemingly innocent products we encounter every day--a tube of glue in a kitchen drawer, a bottle of bleach in the laundry room, a rayon scarf on a closet shelf, a brass knob on the front door, a wood plank on an outdoor deck. A compelling expose, written by a physician with extensive experience in public health and...more
Hardcover, 374 pages
Published
January 3rd 2007
by University of California Press
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Wow, what a book! I wouldn’t mind owning this because it’s such a fantastic reference book and really goes into detail of the history of scientific reports on specific chemicals, on government and companies and their blatant disregard for the health of employees in factories or even the health of consumers. Such great historical references but at the same time it makes you furious- why has our government continued to allow these things to happen? Even to this day, there is little to no regulatio...more
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consumers, workers, people with environmental illness, parents
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This book was surprisingly engaging, weaving between incredibly well-researched historical and scientific data and the case stories of individuals affected by exposure to chemicals within working class professions. The negligence and malevolence of government, industry, and medicine are made obvious without overt politicization, as is the disproportionate impact with poverty, immigration, and disability.
My criticism is less about what the book is than what the cover advertises- the quo...more
My criticism is less about what the book is than what the cover advertises- the quo...more
C I skimmed this mainly; I had high hopes, but it seems to be written for someone writing a paper or highly science-obsessed rather than the regular environmentalist like myself.
*Never live near a factory
*Never Never Never work in a factory
*Many toxins have been around forever. People know this and still work with them and use them....
*Never Never Never work in a factory
*Many toxins have been around forever. People know this and still work with them and use them....
Krista Bolan
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Although parts of this book were extremely interesting, it's a little more scholarly than my current mood. It has lots of cool case studies in it though and there's a lot to learn here about how chemicals have been affecting human health for much longer than we tend to give them credit. The book includes extensive footnotes for further clarification. Time to move onto something a little lighter, I'm afraid.
An eye-popper! Scientists have been documenting air pollution, etc for centuries. Somehow all their research still gets swept under the rug. I wasn't able to finish it but enjoed it.
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