Killer Commodities: Public Health and the Corporate Production of Harm
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Killer Commodities: Public Health and the Corporate Production of Harm
By Hans Baer
* Publisher: AltaMira Press
* Number Of Pages: 438
* Publication Date: 2008-07-28
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0759109788
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780759109780
Product Description:
Killer Commodities addresses the impact of harmful products on consumers throughout the world. These case studies highlight the processes of production and marketing of these products, as well as the nature of relevant public health policies.
PREFACE
As various scholars, pundits, and social critics have emphasized,
we live in an increasingly commodified world; a world populated
by goods, services, and other items that are produced for sale
rather than for immediate consumption by the producer. Moreover, we
live in a globalized world in which commodities flow quickly from one
place to another and travel many miles from the hands of the people who
produce them to those of the people who consume them. Additionally, as
corporations have become transnational, they have become more powerful
and harder to regulate. The result has been growing evidence of dangerous
commodities reaching consumers, sometimes with deadly
consequences. Such commodities, their health and social impact, and the
processes and forces leading to their availability in the market are examined
in this book.
This is the second book in an ongoing series initiated by members of
the Critical Anthropology of Health Caucus of the Society for Medical
Anthropology to turn the bright light of critical theory on global health
issues. The first volume, Unhealthy Health Policy: A Critical Anthropological
Examination (2004), edited by Arachu Castro and Merrill Singer, examined
the ways in which health policies can produce illness rather than
health because of corporate interest and social inequality. While each
of the authors who contributed to this volume—not all of whom are
anthropologists—has his or her own perspectives, one of the goals of this
book is to contribute to building a critical, socially conscious, and anthropologically
informed understanding of killer commodities, while extending
awareness of their nature and their health consequences. Beyond
contributing to theory building, this book is intended as an aid in the
broader social struggle for a safer, healthier world for all people.
CONTENTS
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Introduction: Hidden Harm: The Complex World of
Killer Commodities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Merrill Singer and Hans Baer
PART ONE
HOME COMMODITIES
CHAPTER ONE Stealthy Killers and Governing Mentalities:
Chemicals in Consumer Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Edward J.Woodhouse and Jeff Howard
CHAPTER TWO Nothing to Play Around With:
Dangerous Toys for Girls and Boys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Merrill Singer and Pamela I. Erickson
CHAPTER THREE The Environmental and Health
Consequences of Motor Vehicles: A Case Study in Capitalist
Technological Hegemony and Grassroots Responses to It . . . . . 95
Hans Baer
CHAPTER FOUR Lay Me Down to Sleep: SIDS, Suffocation,
and the Selling of Risk Reduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
CHAPTER FIVE Melanoma Whitewash: Millions at Risk of
Injury or Death Because of Sunscreen Deceptions . . . . . . . . . 145
Brian McKenna
CHAPTER SIX Building with Poison: Toxicity and
CCA-Treated Lumber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Terence Love
PART TWO
MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMMODITIES
CHAPTER SEVEN U.S. Health Care: Commodification Kills . . . . 205
Martha Livingston
CHAPTER EIGHT Silicone Seduction: Are Cosmetic
Breast Implants Killer Commodities? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Pamela I. Erickson and Ann M. Cheney
CHAPTER NINE Selling Sickness/Creating Demand:
Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs . . . . . . 255
Joan E. Paluzzi
CHAPTER TEN Deadly Embrace: Psychoactive Medication,
Psychiatry, and the Pharmaceutical Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Michael Oldani
CHAPTER ELEVEN A Guinea Pig’s Wage: Risk and
Commoditization in Pharmaceutical Research in America . . . . 311
Roberto Abadie
CHAPTER TWELVE Corrosion in the System:
The Community Health By-Products of Pharmaceutical
Production in Northern Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Alexa S. Dietrich
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Inverting the Killer Commodity Model:
Withholding Medicines from the Poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Michael Westerhaus and Arachu Castro
Conclusion: Killer Commodities and Society:
Fighting for Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Hans Baer and Merrill Singer
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
About the Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
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