The Drug Company Next Door : Pollution, Jobs, and Community Health in Puerto Rico /

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This critical medical anthropology study binds two still emergent areas of contemporary anthropological research in the global world: the nature and significant impact of multinational pharmaceutical manufacturers on human social life everywhere, and the contribution of corporations to the fast-pace...

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Autor principal: Dietrich, Alexa S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Pollution > Social aspects.
Pollution > Economic aspects.
Pharmaceutical industry > Environmental aspects.
Environmental policy > Citizen participation.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Pollution Control.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Pollution > Aspect social > Porto Rico.
Industrie pharmaceutique > Évaluation du risque > Porto Rico.
Industrie pharmaceutique > Aspect de l'environnement > Porto Rico.
Environmental policy > Puerto Rico > Citizen participation.
Pollution > Economic aspects > Puerto Rico.
Pollution > Social aspects > Puerto Rico.
Pharmaceutical industry > Risk assessment > Puerto Rico.
Pharmaceutical industry > Environmental aspects > Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Key Events Timeline for Nocorá's Environmental Health
  • List of Acronyms
  • A Note on Pseudonyms
  • Introduction : Understanding Political Ecologies of Risk in Puerto Rico
  • Little by Little
  • The Dose Makes the Poison : How Making Drugs Harms Environments and People
  • Progress
  • In the Beginning Was the Corporation : Progress, Pollution, and the Public Trust
  • Playing Politics
  • The Rituals and Consequences of Community Politics and Dissent
  • "Fresh Minds" on Parade
  • Environmental Justice Is Not Always Just
  • Good Neighbors (A Conversation)
  • The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Problem of "Stakeholders"
  • "Salud te recomienda"
  • Radical Redistributions of Knowledge : A Holistic View of Environmental Health
  • Epilogue.

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