No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action - Softcover

Brown, Phil; Harr, Jonathan; Mikkelsen, Edwin J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520212487 ISBN 13: 9780520212480

Verlag: University of California Press, 1997

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Book by Brown Phil Mikkelsen Edwin J

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"This is a book for people living near toxic waste dumps who are mad as hell and aren't going to take it anymore."--Andrew H. Malcolm, "New York Times Book Review

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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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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0520212487
• ISBN 13: 9780520212480
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288