How everyday products make people sick : toxins at home and in the workplace / Paul D. Blanc.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blanc, Paul D., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Toxicology--Popular works.

Toxicology.

Occupational diseases.

History.

Environmental health.

Environmental health--History.

Occupational diseases--History.

Health risk assessment.

Product safety.

Hazardous Substances.

Medical Subjects:

Hazardous Substances.

Toxicology.

Genre:

Popular works.

Physical Description:

x, 374 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]

Summary:

Hidden health dangers lurk 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 out-door deck. How Everyday Products Make People Sick, a compelling expose written by a physician with extensive experience in public health and illustrated with disturbing case histories, is a rich and meticulously documented account of injuries and illnesses that transpire across different time periods, places, and technologies. It presents a picture not of one exceptional or corrupt industry but, rather, of how run-of-the mill manufacturing processes and consumer marketing expose workers and the general public alike to toxic hazards.

Contents:

The forgotten histories of "modern" hazards

The shadow of smoke : how to evade regulation

Good glue, better glue, superglue

Under a green sea : the rising tide of chlorine

Going crazy at work : cycles of carbon disulfide poisoning

Job fever : inhaling dust and fumes

Emerging toxins.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-346) and index.

ISBN:

0520248813

9780520248816

0520248821

9780520248823

OCLC:

66463529

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