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Zusatztext “Twenty of the biggest chemical companies in the United States have launched a campaign to discredit two historians who have studied the industry's efforts to conceal links between their products and cancer. In an unprecedented move, attorneys for Dow, Monsanto, Goodrich, Goodyear, Union Carbide and others have subpoenaed and deposed five academics who recommended that the University of California Press publish the book Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution , by Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner. The companies have also recruited their own historian to argue that Markowitz and Rosner have engaged in unethical conduct. Markowitz is a professor of history at the CUNY Grad Center; Rosner is a professor of history and public health at Columbia University and director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia's School of Public Health.” Informationen zum Autor Gerald Markowitz is Professor of History at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. David Rosner is Professor of History and Public Health at Columbia University and Director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health. They are coauthors of Children! Race! and Power: Kenneth and Mamie Clark's Northside Center (1996) and Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth Century America (1994). They are coeditors of Dying for Work: Safety and Health in the United States (1987) and Slaves of the Depression: Workers' Letters about Life on the Job (1987). Klappentext " Deceit and Denial ...lays bare the truth about how every one of us in America is imperiled when powerful corporations forsake their responsibility to the public health. Rosner and Markowitz have combined the skills of historical research! investigative journalism! and scientific analysis to tell a story that should shake an industry and alert a nation."-Bill Moyers " Deceit and Denial is a real public service in reminding all of us that fundamental to protecting our air! water! and the health of our communities and families is the public's right to know."-Carol M. Browner! Administrator! Environmental Protection Agency! 1933-2001 "This is an especially important book at a time when industry is increasingly sponsoring risk research! and 'voluntary' evaluation is the norm. And it is all the more important at a time when new bio-engineered products are being marketed with little understanding of long-term clinical and subclinical risks."-Dorothy Nelkin! coauthor of The DNA Mystique: The Gene as Cultural Icon and Body Bazaar: The Market for Human Tissue i nthe Biotechnology Age "In this time of community health crises! appalling environmental disasters! and political dismay! Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner have given us an urgently needed! galvanizing! hopeful history of triumphant public activism against the greatest odds. In the face of corporate cruelty and lies! labor and community activists! lawyers! and historians stopped polluters and saved countless lives. This vivid! splendid book floodlights past abuses as it charts the road toward a healing! safer future."-Blanche Wiesen Cook! author of Eleanor Roosevelt Zusammenfassung Details the attempts by chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products present to workers, the public, and consumers. This book highlights the immediate dangers ordinary citizens face because of the relentless failure of industrial polluters to warn, inform, and protect their workers and neighbors. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Industry's Child 1. The House of the Butterflies:...
