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RECORD NUMBER: 2 OF 7| Main Title | Diagnosis mercury : money, politics, and poison / | ||||||||||||||||
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| Author | Hightower, Jane M. | ||||||||||||||||
| Publisher | Island Press/Shearwater Books, | ||||||||||||||||
| Year Published | 2009 | ||||||||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 191927211 | ||||||||||||||||
| ISBN | 9781597263955 (cloth : alk. paper); 1597263958 (cloth : alk. paper) | ||||||||||||||||
| Subjects | Mercury--Toxicology ; Mercury wastes--Political aspects ; Mercury--Environmental aspects ; Mercury--Government policy--United States ; Mercury--toxicity | ||||||||||||||||
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| Collation | xii, 307 p. ; 24 cm. | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-295) and index. |
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| Contents Notes | The discovery -- Finding my way -- The media meets the victims -- Spreading the news -- A spoonful of mercury -- Making money with a menace -- The summit -- Feeling the heat in mercury politics -- The Canadian mercury scare -- Dr Sa'Adoun al-Tikriti -- Fishy loaves -- Fishing with the FDA for evidence in Iraq -- Fishing with the industry for evidence in Iraq -- From American Samoa to Peru -- The political realm of Seychelles versus Faroes -- The mercury study report -- Strategic errors and redundant tactics -- The canning of proposition 65 mercury warnings -- Diagnosis mercury. |