Environmental Health - Third World Problems - First World Preoccupations

✍ Scribed by Mooney, L.; Bate, R. (Eds.)

Publisher: Elsevier
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Leaves: 239
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book underlines the differences in health priorities that exist around the world, and cautions against the export of inappropriate attitudes from developed to less developed countries. Case studies of malaria in South Africa and cholera in Peru show the fatal consequences of allowing western preoccupations with trivial risks (such as the cancer effects of pesticide residues in foods and chlorine compounds in water) to influence health policy in the third world.
Content:
Front Matter
• Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Malaria and the DDT Story
2. Dirty Water: Cholera in Peru
3. A Sociology of Health Panics
4. Ecological Risk: Actual and Hypothetical
5. Politics, Policy, Poisoning and Food Scares
6. Dietary Nitrates Pose No Threat to Human Health
7. Rachel's Folly: The End of Chlorine
8. Organochlorines - Natural and Anthropogenic
9. Nature's Hormone Factory
10. The Saga of the Falling Sperm Counts
11. Commentary
About ESEF
Academic Members of ESEF
• Authors' Addresses
Index

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