How Everyday Products Make People Sick Updated And Expanded

Author : Paul D. Blanc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0520261275

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How Everyday Products Make People Sick by Paul D. Blanc Pdf

"This is the work of a lifetime, one sure to be a classic for future lifetimes. Thirty years ago, Paul Blanc educated me about the threat of cancers caused by corporate and government negligence. Now he tells a great, entertaining and shocking story, based on a vast knowledge of science, government regulation, history and popular culture that shows our personal dependency and the almost-forsaken cause of public health."--Tom Hayden, former chairman, committee on natural resources, California state senate." "A masterful synthesis of some of the very heated and critical environmental and occupational health issues of our time. Paul Blanc offers a grounded look at the long term history of industrial disease, and the toxic environment in which we now live -- something that has been overlooked in discussions of the rise of the modern environmental movement."--David Rosner, author of Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution and co-author of Are We Ready? Public Health Since 9/11.

Author : Paul D. Blanc
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-02
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780520945319

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How Everyday Products Make People Sick, Updated and Expanded by Paul D. Blanc Pdf

This book reveals the hidden health dangers in many of the seemingly innocent products we encounter every day—a tube of glue in a kitchen drawer, a bottle of bleach in the laundry room, a rayon scarf on a closet shelf, a brass knob on the front door, a wood plank on an outdoor deck. A compelling exposé, written by a physician with extensive experience in public health and illustrated with disturbing case histories, How Everyday Products Make People Sick is a rich and meticulously documented account of injury and illness across different time periods, places, and technologies.

Author : Yuh-Chin T. Huang,Andrew J. Ghio,Lisa A. Maier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781627031493

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A Clinical Guide to Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases by Yuh-Chin T. Huang,Andrew J. Ghio,Lisa A. Maier Pdf

A Clinical Guide to Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases delivers a concise compendium to the diagnosis and management of occupational and environmental lung diseases, incorporating evidence-based guidelines where available. Each chapter provides an updated review and a practical approach to different occupational and environmental lung diseases. With rapidly changing technology, new conditions and exposures will undoubtedly emerge. Clinicians need to remain vigilant about assessing the potential link between lung diseases and environmental exposures, and this book provides a practical guide to recognize, diagnose, and prevent occupational and environmental lung diseases. Written for practicing clinicians including internists, pulmonologists, and primary care providers, as well as industrial hygienists and environmental regulators, A Clinical Guide to Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases is a timely and important new volume and an invaluable contribution to the literature.

Author : Charlotte Eliopoulos
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781449694227

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Invitation to Holistic Health by Charlotte Eliopoulos Pdf

Invitation to Holistic Health: A Guide to Living a Balanced Life provides solid principles and proven measures to promote optimal health and well-being using a holistic approach. Divided into three parts: Strengthening Your Inner Resources, Developing Health Lifestyle Practices, and Taking Charge of Challenges to the Mind, Body, and Spirit, this easy-to-read guide it provides how-to information when dealing with a variety of health-related issues that includes, but is not limited to, nutrition, exercise, herbal remedies, and homeopathic remedies. The Third Edition as been completely revised and includes current research on the effectiveness and safety of herbs and other complementary and alternative medicine therapies. The chapter on Menopause has been updated to reflect current thinking about the safe use of estrogen replacement, soy products, and other approaches to manage symptoms and new suggested readings and resources have been provided for further exploration into topics.

Author : Paul D. Blanc
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-03
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780520248823

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How Everyday Products Make People Sick by Paul D. Blanc Pdf

Hidden health dangers lurk in many of the seemingly innocent products we encounter every day - a tube of glue in a kitchen drawer, a bottle of bleach in the laundry room, a rayon scarf on a closet shelf, a brass knob on the front door, a wood plank on an out-door deck. It presents a picture not of one exceptional or corrutpt industry but, rather, of how run-of-the mill manufacturing processes and consumer marketing expose workers and the general public alike to toxic hazards.

Author : Jessica Alba
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781623360221

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The Honest Life (Enhanced Edition) by Jessica Alba Pdf

Enhanced Edition includes exclusive videos featuring a candid look at Jessica Alba's Honest Life. As a new mom, Jessica Alba wanted to create the safest, healthiest environment for her family. But she was frustrated by the lack of trustworthy information on how to live healthier and cleaner--delivered in a way that a busy mom could act on without going to extremes. In 2012, with serial entrepreneur Brian Lee and environmental advocate Christopher Gavigan, she launched The Honest Company, a brand where parents can find reliable information and products that are safe, stylish, and affordable. The Honest Life shares the insights and strategies she gathered along the way. The Honest Life recounts Alba's personal journey of discovery and reveals her tips for making healthy living fun, real, and stylish, while offering a candid look inside her home and daily life. She shares strategies for maintaining a clean diet (with favorite family-friendly recipes) and embraces nontoxic choices at home and provides eco-friendly decor tips to fit any budget. Alba also discusses cultivating a daily eco beauty routine, finding one's personal style without resorting to yoga pants, and engaging in fun, hands-on activities with kids. Her solutions are easy, chic, and down-to-earth: they're honest. And discovering everyday ways to live naturally and authentically--true to you--could be honestly life-changing.

Author : Sarah A. Vogel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780520273573

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Is It Safe? by Sarah A. Vogel Pdf

We are all just a little bit plastic. Traces of bisphenol A or BPA, a chemical used in plastics production, are widely detected in our bodies and environment. Is this chemical, and its presence in the human body, safe? What is meant by safety? Who defines it, and according to what information? Is It Safe? narrates how the meaning of the safety of industrial chemicals has been historically produced by breakthroughs in environmental health research, which in turn trigger contests among trade associations, lawyers, politicians, and citizen activists to set new regulatory standards. Drawing on archival research and extensive interviews, author Sarah Vogel explores the roots of the contemporary debate over the safety of BPA, and the concerns presented by its estrogen-like effects even at low doses. Ultimately, she contends that science alone cannot resolve the political and economic conflicts at play in the definition of safety. To strike a sustainable balance between the interests of commerce and public health requires recognition that powerful interests will always try to shape the criteria for defining safety, and that the agenda for environmental health research should be protected from capture by any single interest group.

Author : Peter Kirby
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843838845

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Child Workers and Industrial Health in Britain, 1780-1850 by Peter Kirby Pdf

A comprehensive study of the occupational health of employed children within the broader context of social, industrial and environmental change between 1780 and 1850.

Author : Raymond Francis,Kester Cotton
Publisher : Health Communications, Inc.
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781558749542

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Never Be Sick Again by Raymond Francis,Kester Cotton Pdf

Presents a practical theory of health and disease that aims to revolutionize the way we look at illness. This book provides readers a holistic approach to living that will empower them to get well - and stay well.

Author : Patricia Thomas
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-02
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781101203361

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What's In This Stuff? by Patricia Thomas Pdf

We all like to buy things that make our lives easier, keep us healthy and provide a bit of luxury. But, few of us are aware that many of the products we buy every day are polluting our homes and bodies. In this fascinating and sometimes shocking book, Pat Thomas reveals that many widely-used products contain a cocktail of cheap, poorly-tested chemicals that are implicated in long-term health problems. Many of us now scan food labels for unwanted ingredients, yet we unthinkingly use toiletries and other products that contain a multitude of undesirable chemicals, believing that what we put on our bodies is not as influential to health as what we put in them. However, scientists now believe that household and beauty products and everyday foods expose us a witches' brew of chemicals that wage a kind of chemical warfare against our bodies. Wide-ranging and practical, What's In This Stuff? examines everything from food additives, beauty products and household cleaners, to pharmaceutical products and garden and pet supplies. It also contains a glossary of chemicals and E numbers, a list of the 50 chemicals you should definitely avoid, and suggests non-toxic alternatives to conventional products.

Author : Johanna Feary,Hille Suojalehto,Paul Cullinan
Publisher : European Respiratory Society
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781849841252

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Occupational and Environmental Lung Disease by Johanna Feary,Hille Suojalehto,Paul Cullinan Pdf

This Monograph provides the general respiratory physician with a working reference based on the latest literature and expert opinion. The initial chapter provides a contemporaneous global perspective of the epidemiology of occupational and environmental lung diseases in an ever-evolving landscape. The book then goes on to consider specific occupational lung diseases. Each chapters has a clear clinical focus and considers: key questions to ask in the history; appropriate investigations to undertake; differential diagnoses; and management. Controversies or diagnostic conundrums encountered in the clinic are also considered, and further chapters are more broadly centred on the non-workplace environment; specifically, the respiratory symptoms and diseases associated with both the outdoor and indoor environments.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Air
ISBN : UOM:39015038444876

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Indoor Air Pollution by Anonim Pdf

Author : Phil Brown,Edwin J. Mikkelsen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780520212480

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No Safe Place by Phil Brown,Edwin J. Mikkelsen Pdf

"An excellent and readable account of the toxic waste crisis in Woburn, Massachusetts, and the courageous efforts by local citizens to protect their community. The Woburn story is an inspiring lesson for citizens across the country struggling to protect the environment from polluters and unresponsive government officials."—Senator Edward Kennedy

Author : Paul David Blanc
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780300204667

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Fake Silk by Paul David Blanc Pdf

When a new technology makes people ill, how high does the body count have to be before protectives steps are taken? This disturbing book tells a dark story of hazardous manufacturing, poisonous materials, environmental abuses, political machinations, and economics trumping safety concerns. It explores the century-long history of "fake silk," or cellulose viscose, used to produce such products as rayon textiles and tires, cellophane, and everyday kitchen sponges. Paul Blanc uncovers the grim history of a product that crippled and even served a death sentence to many industry workers while also releasing toxic carbon disulfide into the environment. Viscose, an innovative and lucrative product first introduced in the early twentieth century, quickly became a multinational corporate enterprise. Blanc investigates industry practices from the beginning through two highly profitable world wars, the midcentury export of hazardous manufacturing to developing countries, and the current "greenwashing" of viscose as an eco-friendly product. Deeply researched and boldly presented, this book brings to light an industrial hazard whose egregious history ranks with those of asbestos, lead, and mercury.

Author : George Ritzer,Paul Dean
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781118687123

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Globalization by George Ritzer,Paul Dean Pdf

Updated to reflect recent global developments, the second edition of Globalization: A Basic Text presents an up-to-date introduction to major trends and topics relating to globalization studies. Features updates and revisions in its accessible introduction to key theories and major topics in globalization Includes an enhanced emphasis on issues relating to global governance, emerging technology, global flows of people, human trafficking, global justice movements, and global environmental sustainability Utilizes a unique set of metaphors to introduce and explain the highly complex nature of globalization in an engaging and understandable manner Offers an interdisciplinary approach to globalization by drawing from fields that include sociology, global political economy, political science, international relations, geography, and anthropology Written by an internationally recognized and experienced author team