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Author_Edwin J. Mikkelsen
Author_Phil Brown
cancer
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civic action
conservation
contaminated water
contamination
corporate responsibility
corporations
diseases
environment regulations
environmental impact
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flint
groundwater
health
health policy
legal system
leukemia
litigation
love canal
massachusetts
medicine
nature
nonfiction
pollution
popular science
public health
public policy
safe water
science
sustainability
toxic waste
water politics
water rights
woburn
Product details
- ISBN 9780520212480
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Oct 1997
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Toxic waste, contaminated water, cancer clusters--these phrases suggest deception and irresponsibility. But more significantly, they are watchwords for a growing struggle between communities, corporations, and government. In No Safe Place, sociologists, public policy professionals, and activists will learn how residents of Woburn, Massachusetts discovered a childhood leukemia cluster and eventually sued two corporate giants. Their story gives rise to questions important to any concerned citizen: What kind of government regulatory action can control pollution? Just how effective can the recent upsurge of popular participation in science and technology be? Phil Brown, a medical sociologist, and Edwin Mikkelsen, psychiatric consultant to the plaintiffs, look at the Woburn experience in light of similar cases, such as Love Canal, in order to show that toxic waste contamination reveals fundamental flaws in the corporate, governmental, and scientific spheres. The authors strike a humane, constructive note amidst chilling odds, advocating extensive lay involvement based on the Woburn model of civic action.
Finally, they propose a safe policy for toxic wastes and governmental/corporate responsibility. Woburn, the authors predict, will become a code word for environmental struggles.
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.
