No Safe Place - Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action

"An excellent and readable account of the toxic waste crisis in Woburn, Massachusetts, and the courageous efforts by local citizens to protect their community. The Woburn story is an inspiring lesson for citizens across the country struggling to protect the environment from polluters and unresponsive government officials."—Senator Edward Kennedy

List of contents

Foreward, by Jonathan Harr
Preface (1997)
Preface (1990)
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Town in Turmoil: History and Significance of the Woburn Cluster
The Formation of an Organized Community
The Sickness Caused by "Corporate America": Effects of the Woburn Cluster
Taking Control: Popular Epidemiology
Making It Safe: Securing Future Health
Bibliography

About the author

Phil Brown is Professor of Sociology at Brown University and Lecturer in Sociology, Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry. Edwin J. Mikkelsen is Director of the Division of Child Psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry.

Summary

A focus on a community's struggle for justice in the wake of the environmental contamination by local corporations. Readers will learn about how the residents of Woburn, Massachusetts discovered a childhood leukaemia cluster and eventually sued two corporate giants.

Product details

• Authors: Phil Brown, Phil Mikkelsen Brown, Brown Phil, Edwin J. Mikkelsen, Mikkelsen Edwin J.
• Assisted by: Phil Brown (Foreword), Brown Phil (Foreword), Jonathan Harr (Foreword), Harr Jonathan (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.10.1997
• EAN: 9780520212480
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21248-0
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, NATURE / Natural Resources, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, Environmental factors, Pollution & threats to the environment, United States of America, USA, Science / Environmental Science, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Waste Management, Pollution and threats to the environment, Pressure groups & lobbying, MEDICAL / Environmental Health