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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786476103321

Autore

Hightower Jane M

Titolo

Diagnosis mercury [[electronic resource] ] : money, politics, and poison / / Jane M. Hightower

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2009

ISBN

1-59726-453-9

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Disciplina

615.925663

Soggetti

Mercury - Toxicology

Mercury wastes - Political aspects

Mercury - Environmental aspects

Mercury - Government policy - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1. The Discovery""; ""Chapter 2. Finding My Way""; ""Chapter 3. The Media Meets the Victims""; ""Chapter 4. Spreading the News""; ""Chapter 5. A Spoonful of Mercury""; ""Chapter 6. Making Money with a Menace""; ""Chapter 7. The Summit""; ""Chapter 8. Feeling the Heat in Mercury Politics""; ""Chapter 9. The Canadian Mercury Scare""; ""Chapter 10. Dr. Sa�adoun al-Tikriti""; ""Chapter 11. Fishy Loaves""; ""Chapter 12. Fishing with the FDA for Evidence in Iraq""

""Chapter 13. Fishing with the Industry for Evidencein Iraq""""Chapter 14. From American Samoa to Peru""; ""Chapter 15. The Political Realm of Seychelles versus Faroes""; ""Chapter 16. The Mercury Study Report""; ""Chapter 17. Strategic Errors and Redundant Tactics""; ""Chapter 18. The Canning of Proposition 65 Mercury Warnings""; ""Chapter 19. Diagnosis Mercury""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""