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Genre/Form: | Ressources Internet |
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Additional Physical Format: | Version imprimée : Dietrich, Alexa S. Drug company next door. New York : New York University Press, [2013] (DLC) 2012050536 (OCoLC)819717751 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alexa S Dietrich |
ISBN: | 9780814724644 0814724647 |
OCLC Number: | 987305110 |
Description: | 1 ressource en ligne |
Contents: | Acknowledgments Key Events Timeline for Nocora's Environmental Health List of Acronyms A Note on Pseudonyms Introduction: Understanding PoliticalEcologies of Risk in Puerto Rico Little by Little 1 The Dose Makes the Poison: How Making Drugs Harms Environments and People Progress 2 In the Beginning Was the Corporation: Progress, Pollution, and the Public Trust Playing Politics 3 The Rituals and Consequences of Community Politics and Dissent "Fresh Minds" on Parade 4 Environmental Justice Is Not Always Just Good Neighbors (A Conversation) 5 The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Problem of "Stakeholders" "Salud te recomienda" 6 Radical Redistributions of Knowledge: A Holistic View of Environmental Health Epilogue Appendix Notes Bibliography Index About the Author |
Responsibility: | Alexa S. Dietrich. |
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Dietrich presents the story of Nocora (a pseudonym), a municipality in Puerto Rico that has been the recipient of the blessing and curse of having pharmaceutical companies in its backyard. -- I. Glasser * Choice * "Offers a compelling and thought-provoking account of the politics of recognition in Nocora Puerto Rico, a municipality where the stench of pollution pervades the air, soil, and water. In Nocora one lives beneath the shadow of one's corporate `neighbors, an imposing complex of pharmaceutical companies that turns a blind eye to the insidious effects of toxic by-products while boasting of their lucrative trade in health elsewhere. Set against the invisibility of chronic suffering, local grassroots activists must always fight to be seen and heard. Here one encounters a lively cast of people who inhabit an environment both tranquil and contaminated. This is a smart and masterful portrayal of the realities of activism and the power of corporate public relations strategies, a convincing ethnography that integrates medical anthropology and political ecology in expert fashion. Every employee of Big Pharma should be required to read this book. -- Lesley A. Sharp,Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College The Drug Company Next Dooris ambitious, successful, closely reasoned, vivid, exciting, enormously distressing, and challenging on a political and theoretical level. Dietrichs writing is so good that I would recommend this book for use at any level of anthropological study, from undergraduate all the way up. * Political and Legal Anthropology Review * Dietrichs study fruitfully combines the old and the new as a traditional anthropological community study on a cutting-edge topic of profound global significance. * New West Indian Guide * Read more...


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- Pharmaceutical industry -- Environmental aspects -- Puerto Rico.
- Pharmaceutical industry -- Risk assessment -- Puerto Rico.
- Pollution -- Social aspects -- Puerto Rico.
- Pollution -- Economic aspects -- Puerto Rico.
- Environmental policy -- Puerto Rico -- Citizen participation.
- Industrie pharmaceutique -- Aspect de l'environnement -- Porto Rico.
- Industrie pharmaceutique -- Évaluation du risque -- Porto Rico.
- Pollution -- Aspect social -- Porto Rico.
- Environmental policy -- Citizen participation.
- Pharmaceutical industry -- Environmental aspects.
- Pollution -- Economic aspects.
- Pollution -- Social aspects.
- Puerto Rico.