Drug Company Next Door Pollution, Jobs, and Community Health in Puerto Rico

Name: Drug Company Next Door Pollution, Jobs, and Community Health in Puerto Rico
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ISBN: 9780814724736

ISBN-10: 0814724736

ISBN-13: 9780814724736

Edition: 2013

Authors: Alexa S. Dietrich

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"This fascinating and most timely critical medical anthropology study successfully binds two still emergent areas of contemporary anthropological research in the global world: the nature and significant impact of multinational pharmaceutical manufacturers on human social life everywhere, and the contribution of corporations to the fast-paced degradation of our life support system, planet Earth. . . . Focusing on a pharmaceutically-impacted town on the colonized island of Puerto Rico, Dietrich ably demonstrates the value of ethnography carried out in small places in framing the large issues facing humanity."—Merrill Singer, University of Connecticut The production of pharmaceuticals is…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 6/7/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 251
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144

Alexa S. Dietrich is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Wagner College.ï¿½



Acknowledgments


Key Events Timeline for Nocorï¿½'s Environmental Health


List of Acronyms


A Note on Pseudonyms


Introduction: Understanding Political Ecologies of Risk in Puerto Rico


Little by little



The Dose Makes the Poison: How Making Drugs Harms Environments and People


Progress



In the Beginning Was the Corporation: Progress, Pollution, and the Public Trust


Playing Politics



The Rituals and Consequences of Community Politics and Dissent


"Fresh Minds" on Parade



Environmental Justice Is Not Always Just


Good Neighbors (A Conversation)



The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Problem of "Stakeholders"


"Salud te recomienda"



Radical Redistributions of Knowledge: A Holistic View of Environmental Health


Epilogue


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index


About the Author