| Main Title |
Ecocide in the USSR : health and nature under siege / |
| Author |
Feshbach, Murray,
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| Other Authors |
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| Publisher |
BasicBooks, |
| Year Published |
1992 |
| OCLC Number |
25048150 |
| ISBN |
0465016642; 9780465016648; 0465017819; 9780465017812; 9780456016640; 0456016643 |
| Subjects |
Environmental health--Soviet Union ;
USSR ;
Gesundheitsgefährdung ;
Umweltbelastung ;
Umweltverschmutzung ;
Sowjetunion ;
Milieuverontreiniging ;
Gezondheid ;
POLLUTION ;
ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
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| Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
Modified |
Checkout
Status |
| EJBM |
RA566.5.S65F47 1992 |
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Headquarters Library/Washington,DC |
08/06/1993 |
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| Collation |
xvii, 376 pages : maps (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-363) and index. |
| Contents Notes |
Foreword / Lester Brown -- 1. Facing Facts -- Shortened Lives, Needless Deaths -- Vicious Synergy: Pollution and Disease -- Chernobyl: The Glasnost Fallout -- From Subjects to Activists -- Protest by the Volga -- Onto the Streets -- From Protest to Power -- Beginnings of Wisdom -- 2. Birth of the Future -- The Whip of Necessity -- Science Subservient -- Socialism Versus the Louse -- A Duty to Health -- The Plan: Agent of Destruction -- False Fronts and Self-deception -- 3. Harvests of Neglect -- As Ye Sow -- A Stinking Ruin -- Ill Fares the Land -- Contamination for Mass Consumption -- Preference for Poison -- Back to (Human) Nature -- 4. A Sea of Troubles -- Deaths at an Early Age -- Resentment Rising -- 5. Dark, Satanic Mills -- The Shroud of Pollution -- Siberian Wastes and Wastelands -- Death Traps in the Rust Belt -- No Place to Hide -- Politics, Economics and Pollution -- 6. Water Torture -- "Conserve This Glorious Sea" -- Wasting Away -- Currents of Contamination -- Last Resorts -- 7." ... Plus Electrification" -- Rocks and Hard Places -- "We Simply Squander Energy" -- "We Need a Propagandist" -- Chernobyl: Costs of Cataclysm -- Mind over Matter -- Coverup and Controversy -- The Wages of Fear -- "Letting the Chips Fly" -- 8. Crippled Giant -- Sick Call -- Mayhem in Uniform -- Military Medicine: An Oxymoron? -- Hoist by Its Own Petard -- Up in Arms -- 9. Gathering Ills -- Environment and Health -- Losing Ground -- Drinking and Dying -- New Ills, Old Strategies -- Short-changed -- Opiates for the Masses -- Failing According to Plan -- There Ought to Be a Law -- 10. Cradle to Grave -- Siege Conditions -- Desperate Remedies -- A Woman's Story -- Motherhood and Its Discontents -- Equal Rights, Unequal Burdens -- Handicapped Healers -- Unarmed, Maybe Dangerous -- Prognosis Guarded -- 11. The People Speak -- Greening Around the Edges -- Ready for Prime Time -- Brushfires at the Grass Roots -- Fighting City Hall -- All Power to the Soviets! -- Things Fall Apart -- 12. A Time to Heal -- Environmental Economics -- The Prices of Cleanup -- First Things First -- Rx for Health -- Whence Cometh My Help. A look at the impending health and environmental disasters in the Soviet Union, discussing the shortage of appropriate surgical instruments, the dangerous concentration of pollution in some cities, and more. |
| Place Published |
New York, NY : |
| PUB Date Free Form |
c1992. |
| BIB Level |
m |
| Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
| LCCN |
91055456 |
| Merged OCLC records |
123448707; 232128585; 566914297; 1099751690; 1109580199; 1113773955; 1166475899; 1166531667; 1171542938 |
| OCLC Time Stamp |
19960423161944 |
| Language |
ENG |
| Origin |
OCLC |
| Type |
CAT |
| OCLC Rec Leader |
01001cam 2200301 a 45010 |
