Frank Cross provides a comprehensive treatment of the widely
feared problem of environmentally induced cancer. The author takes
a threefold approach to the problem, first examining the cancers
themselves and what is known about their causes and then exploring
both the government's regulation of these environmental pollutants
and the legal remedies available to victims of such cancers.
Throughout, new proposals for regulating carcinogens and
compensating the victims of environmental cancer are discussed.
In Part I, Cross addresses the significant and unique problems
presented by the disease of cancer, demonstrating that the limits
of scientific knowledge, the absence of a demonstrable safe
threshold of exposure and other special features of the disease
create a unique cancer problem for government. The second section
examines the various risk-management approaches from which a
regulatory agency may choose. As Cross demonstrates, government
must identify carcinogens, assess the risks they present, and
choose control methods--a complex task made even more difficult by
the conflicting claims of industry and environmental groups. He
concludes this section by proposing future approaches for more
effective regulation, including prioritization of the greatest
hazards and adoption of a moderate, feasibility-based control
program. The final chapters explore legal obstacles to victim
compensation and argue for fundamental changes in existing common
law doctrines to enhance the ability of victim/plaintiffs to
recover adequate damages.
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