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Neoliberals often point to improvements in public health and nutrition as examples of globalisation's success, but this book argues that the corporate food and medicine industries are destroying environments and ruining living conditions across the world. Scientist Stan Cox expertly draws out t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cox, Stan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Ann Arbor : Pluto Press, 2008.
Temas:
Food industry and trade > Environmental aspects.
Food industry and trade > Economic aspects.
Medical care > Environmental aspects.
Medical economics.
Corporations > Environmental aspects.
Industrialization > Environmental aspects.
Pharmaceutical industry > Environmental aspects.
Pharmaceutical industry > Economic aspects.
Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Economics, Medical
Greenhouse Effect
Économie de la santé.
Sociétés > Aspect de l'environnement.
Industrialisation > Aspect de l'environnement.
Industrie pharmaceutique > Aspect de l'environnement.
Industrie pharmaceutique > Aspect économique.
Effet de serre (Météorologie)
Êtres humains > Influence sur la nature.
Soins médicaux > Aspect de l'environnement.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology.
Corporations > Environmental aspects
Food industry and trade > Economic aspects
Food industry and trade > Environmental aspects
Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric
Industrialization > Environmental aspects
Medical economics
Nature > Effect of human beings on
Pharmaceutical industry > Economic aspects
Pharmaceutical industry > Environmental aspects
Globalisierung
Öffentliches Gesundheitswesen
Lebensmittelindustrie
Pharmazeutische Industrie
Umweltschaden
Lebensbedingungen
Zerstörung
Ernährung
Livsmedelsindustri.
Läkemedelsindustri.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • 1. Health care's malignant growth
  • "If they build it, we'll fill it"
  • An unhealthy industry
  • Growing pains
  • Those bad apples
  • Green health care?
  • The model wealth creator
  • 2. Feeling OK? Are you sure?
  • Disease mongering
  • Direct-to-patient, direct-to-doctor
  • 3. Side effects may be severe
  • Colorful India
  • Side effects
  • Cracking down?
  • 4. Swallowing the Earth whole
  • Caution : this diet is not for everyone
  • Appearances and reality
  • All the fish in the sea
  • A self-fattening industry
  • 5. "Agroterrorists" can take a vacation
  • The industrialized farm economy
  • Hazards of food production
  • Who wants to take away our freedom?
  • 6. Hunger for natural gas
  • Nitrogen, human existence, and economic logic
  • Gas : so good it's bad
  • Coal : a lousy plan B
  • Full Jacuzzis, empty stomachs
  • Nitrogen : too little, too much
  • Needs and wants
  • 7. Down-to-a-trickle economics
  • Dimming, global and local
  • Dark horizon
  • The 66,000-lb gorilla in the living room
  • 8. Supernatural food
  • Goliath junior vs. Goliath senior
  • Shop where you work?
  • Industrial-strength organic
  • Other routes
  • A gaping hole
  • 9. The world is your kitchen
  • Some of the planet's toughest little molecules
  • Turning up the heat on Teflon
  • Chemical stewardship
  • Paths of least resistance
  • The chemical amnesty program
  • 10. Political impossibility vs. biological impossibility
  • Three big books
  • Efficiency
  • The European mirage
  • Different kinds of impossibility
  • Notes
  • Suggested reading
  • Index.

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