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No Safe Place : Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action / / Phil Brown, Edwin J. Mikkelsen



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Autore: Brown Phil Visualizza persona
Titolo: No Safe Place : Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action / / Phil Brown, Edwin J. Mikkelsen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1997]
©1997
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
Disciplina: 363.72875809744
618.92
618.9299419
Soggetto topico: Hazardous wastes - Environmental aspects - Massachusetts - Woburn
Leukemia - Massachusetts
Leukemia in children - Massachusetts - Woburn
Leukemia in children
Soggetto non controllato: cancer clusters
cancer
civic action
conservation
contaminated water
contamination
corporate responsibility
corporations
diseases
environment regulations
environmental impact
flint
groundwater
health policy
health
legal system
leukemia
litigation
love canal
massachusetts
medicine
nature
nonfiction
pollution
popular science
public health
public policy
safe water
science
sustainability
toxic waste
water politics
water rights
woburn
Persona (resp. second.): MikkelsenEdwin J.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Maps -- Foreword -- Preface (1997) -- Preface (1990) -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Town in Turmoil: History and Significance of the Woburn Cluster -- 2. The Formation of an Organized Community -- 3. The Sickness Caused by "Corporate America": Effects of the Woburn Cluster -- 4. Taking Control: Popular Epidemiology -- 5. Making It Safe: Securing Future Health -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: No Safe Place  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-35595-3
9786612355950
0-520-92048-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910817562803321
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