Tragic Failures: How and Why We Are Harmed by Toxic Chemicals

Tragic Failures: How and Why We Are Harmed by Toxic Chemicals - Hardcover

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Tragic Failures: How and Why We Are Harmed by Toxic Chemicals - Hardcover

Tragic Failures: How and Why We Are Harmed by Toxic Chemicals - Hardcover

by Carl F. Cranor
$83.77
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Book Overview

The world is awash in chemicals created by fellow citizens, but we know little to nothing about them. Understanding whether even the most prevalent ones are toxic would take decades. Many people have tragically suffered serious diseases and premature death, including children during development. Why has this occurred?

Many factors contribute, but two important ones are the laws permitting this and the manner in which science has been used to identify and assess whether or not products are toxic. Both are the outcome of legislative, corporate, and judicial choices.

Congress created laws that in fact keep public health officials and the wider population in the dark about the toxicity of virtually all substances other than prescription drugs and pesticides. Facing considerable ignorance about toxic substances, impartially motivated scientists seeking to protect the public health are constrained by the natural pace of studies to reveal toxic effects. Corporate pressures on public health officials and scientific obstruction substantially heighten the barriers to protecting the public.

When people have suffered serious as well as life-threatening diseases likely traceable to toxic substances, judicial errors barring relevant science in the personal injury (tort) law can and have frustrated redress of injustices.
Under both public health law and the tort law, there are possibilities for improved approaches, provided public leaders make different and better choices. This book describes these issues and suggests how we could be better protected from myriad toxic substances in our midst.
ISBN9780190635756
Author Carl F. Cranor
PublisherOxford University Press
GenreEducation and Philosophy
FormatHardcover
PublishedMarch 2017
LanguageENG- English
Pages264
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Tragic Failures: How and Why We Are Harmed by Toxic Chemicals - Hardcover

By Carl F. Cranor

About Carl F. Cranor

Carl F. Cranor is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Faculty member of the Environmental Toxicology Graduate Group at University of California Riverside. He is the author of Regulating Toxic Substances (OUP 1993), Legally Poisoned: How the Law Puts Us at Risk from Toxicants (Harvard 2013), Toxic Torts: Science, Law and the Possibility of Justice (CUP 2006)

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