Diagnosis: Mercury Money, Politics, and Poison

Name: Diagnosis: Mercury Money, Politics, and Poison
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ISBN: 9781597263955

ISBN-10: 1597263958

ISBN-13: 9781597263955

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: Jane Marie Hightower

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One morning in 2000, Dr. Jane Hightower walked into her exam room to find a patient with disturbing symptoms she couldn’t explain. The woman was nauseated, tired, and had difficulty concentrating, but a litany of tests revealed no apparent cause. She was not alone. Dr. Hightower saw numerous patients with similar, inexplicable ailments, and eventually learned that there were many more around the nation and the world. They had little in common—except a healthy appetite for certain fish. Dr. Hightower’s quest for answers led her to mercury, a poison that has been plaguing victims for centuries and is now showing up in seafood. But this “explanation” opened a Pandora’s Box of thornier…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 9/29/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 326
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Preface



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


Notes


Bibliography


Index