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No Safe Place - Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action (Paperback, Revised Ed.)
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No Safe Place - Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action (Paperback, Revised Ed.)
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Toxic waste, contaminated water, cancer clusters--these phrases
suggest deception and irresponsibility. But more significantly,
they are watchwords for a growing struggle between communities,
corporations, and government. In No Safe Place, sociologists,
public policy professionals, and activists will learn how residents
of Woburn, Massachusetts discovered a childhood leukemia cluster
and eventually sued two corporate giants. Their story gives rise to
questions important to any concerned citizen: What kind of
government regulatory action can control pollution? Just how
effective can the recent upsurge of popular participation in
science and technology be? Phil Brown, a medical sociologist, and
Edwin Mikkelsen, psychiatric consultant to the plaintiffs, look at
the Woburn experience in light of similar cases, such as Love
Canal, in order to show that toxic waste contamination reveals
fundamental flaws in the corporate, governmental, and scientific
spheres. The authors strike a humane, constructive note amidst
chilling odds, advocating extensive lay involvement based on the
Woburn model of civic action. Finally, they propose a safe policy
for toxic wastes and governmental/corporate responsibility. Woburn,
the authors predict, will become a code word for environmental
struggles.
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