Diagnosis mercury : money, politics, and poison /
Hightower, Jane M.
Diagnosis mercury : money, politics, and poison / Jane M. Hightower. - Washington, DC : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2009. - xii, 307 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-295) and index.
The discovery -- Finding my way -- The media meets the victims -- Spreading the news -- A spoonful of mercury -- Making money with a menace -- The summit -- Feeling the heat in mercury politics -- The Canadian mercury scare -- Dr Sa'Adoun al-Tikriti -- Fishy loaves -- Fishing with the FDA for evidence in Iraq -- Fishing with the industry for evidence in Iraq -- From American Samoa to Peru -- The political realm of Seychelles versus Faroes -- The mercury study report -- Strategic errors and redundant tactics -- The canning of proposition 65 mercury warnings -- Diagnosis mercury.
9781597263955 (cloth : alk. paper) 1597263958 (cloth : alk. paper)
2008022550
Mercury--Toxicology.
Mercury wastes--Political aspects.
Mercury--Environmental aspects.
Mercury--Government policy--United States.
RA1231.M5 / H54 2009
615.9/25663
Diagnosis mercury : money, politics, and poison / Jane M. Hightower. - Washington, DC : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2009. - xii, 307 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-295) and index.
The discovery -- Finding my way -- The media meets the victims -- Spreading the news -- A spoonful of mercury -- Making money with a menace -- The summit -- Feeling the heat in mercury politics -- The Canadian mercury scare -- Dr Sa'Adoun al-Tikriti -- Fishy loaves -- Fishing with the FDA for evidence in Iraq -- Fishing with the industry for evidence in Iraq -- From American Samoa to Peru -- The political realm of Seychelles versus Faroes -- The mercury study report -- Strategic errors and redundant tactics -- The canning of proposition 65 mercury warnings -- Diagnosis mercury.
9781597263955 (cloth : alk. paper) 1597263958 (cloth : alk. paper)
2008022550
Mercury--Toxicology.
Mercury wastes--Political aspects.
Mercury--Environmental aspects.
Mercury--Government policy--United States.
RA1231.M5 / H54 2009
615.9/25663