Killer commodities : public health and the corporate production of harm

Publication Data

• Title Killer commodities : public health and the corporate production of harm
• Contributors Merrill Singer, Hans A. Baer
• Publisher AltaMira Press
• Publication date 2009
• Publication location Lanham
• Language English

Contents

Silicone 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.

Topics

• Health risk assessment
• Consumer goods :: Health aspects
• Consumer goods :: Safety measures
• Consumer goods :: Social aspects
• 015323504

Killer commodities : public health and the corporate production of harm. ISBN 9780759109797. Published by AltaMira Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.