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Diagnosis mercury : money, politics, and poison /

"When Dr. Jane Hightower walked into her exam room one morning in 2000, she wasn't expecting to become embroiled in a political firestorm. She saw a new patient who complained of nausea, fatigue, and trouble concentrating, but a battery of tests revealed no apparent cause. Then a chance en...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hightower, Jane M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Island Press/Shearwater Books, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The discovery
  • Finding my way
  • The media meets the victims
  • Spreading the news
  • A spoonful of mercury
  • Making money with a menace
  • The summit
  • Feeling the heat in mercury politics
  • The Canadian mercury scare
  • Dr Sa'Adoun al-Tikriti
  • Fishy loaves
  • Fishing with the FDA for evidence in Iraq
  • Fishing with the industry for evidence in Iraq
  • From American Samoa to Peru
  • The political realm of Seychelles versus Faroes
  • The mercury study report
  • Strategic errors and redundant tactics
  • The canning of proposition 65 mercury warnings
  • Diagnosis mercury.