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In studies of how toxic chemicals affect human health, Michaels told me, \"It's quite easy to take a positive result [showing harmful effects] and turn it falsely negative. This epidemiological alchemy is used widely.\" -Sharon Begley\u003cbr\u003eFrom Nature, 6\/12\/08 _ David Michaels has written a powerful, thorough indictment of the way big business has ignored, suppressed or distorted vital scientific evidence to the detriment of the public's health. Doubt Is Their Product catalogues numerous corporate misdemeanours, especially in the United States, from the criminal neglect of the dangerous nature of asbestos and the lies told by the tobacco industry, to the suppression of adverse findings of deaths caused by the anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx and the increased risk of suicide among teenagers taking selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors for depression. The book concludes with a list of prescriptions for securing better regulation and greater protection for the public, mainly through increased public disclosure of vested interests. -Dick Taverne\u003cbr\u003eThe book is a shocking portrayal of the tactics used by corporate America to delay public health and environmental regulation of their products for the sake of profit...It is a must read for anyone interested in public health and environmental protection. * Chemical \u0026amp; Engineering News *\u003cbr\u003e...Doubt Is Their Product reminds one of deeper risks that threaten scientific fields and democratic deliberation. ...The scientific community and the public need to be on guard against such abuses; Michaels's history of these events sounds an alert that must not be ignored. * Durrants *\u003cbr\u003eOne of Library Journal's top 10 sci-tech books of 2008!\u003cbr\u003eReceived an Honorable Mention in the Society for Environmental Journalism's 2009 Awards for Reporting on the Environment for the category Rachel Carson Environment Book Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements Introduction: \"Sound Science\" or \"Sounds Like Science?\" 1. \"Doubt Is Our Product\" 2. Waiting for the Body Count 3. America Demands Protection 4. Why our Children are Smarter Than We Are 5. The Enronization of Science 6. Tricks of the Trade: How Mercenary Scientists Mislead You 7. Defending Secondhand Smoke 8. Still Waiting for the Body Count 9. Chrome-Plated Mischief 10. OSHA Gives Up 11. Defending the Taxicab Standard 12. The Country has a Drug Problem 13. Daubert: The Most Influential Supreme Court Ruling You've Never Heard Of 14. The Institutionalization of Uncertainty 15. The Bush Administration's Political Science 16. Making Peace with the Past 17. Four Ways to Make the Courts Count 18. 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Such a solution would not put the doctors, psychologists, social workers, policemen, and priests out of work, but it would incorporate their practices in a larger social project. The project is to reshape society with enough force and imagination to enable people to find social integration and meaning in everyday life. Then great numbers of them would not need to fill their inner void with addictions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexander's watershed study could not be more timely. 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Media equalization of success, self-control, and attractiveness with a thin, healthy body frame these achievements as individual responsibility. Thus, in a society where women can now do anything, only the woman herself can be blamed if she does not achieve her full potential. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCombining scientific approach with personal voices, \u003cem\u003eEating Disorders in a Capitalist World\u003c\/em\u003e presents a critical analysis of the social context of eating disorders based on in-depth interviews with women suffering from anorexia and bulimia. Employing a variety of influential socio-cultural theories, Jelena Balabanić Mavrović closely relates various environmental influences on the development of low self-esteem, poor self-image and body dissatisfaction to the shaping of normative femininity and the experience of gender socialization in Western society. Chapters also provide a detailed review of the socio-historical development of discourses and practices related to anorexia and bulimia, including ‘healthism’, the war on obesity, and other current trends.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProviding a new perspective on female identity, \u003cem\u003eEating Disorders in a Capitalist World\u003c\/em\u003e offers a complete insight into the world of eating disorders in today’s society, exposing how new forms of freedom for women have also become new forms of self-surveillance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Introduction \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. In-Depth Interviews with Women with Eating Disorders \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Development of Eating Disorders in the Socio-Historical Context \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Socio-cultural Theories of the Development of Eating Disorders (Anorexia and Bulimia) \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Research on Contemporary Social Changes and Eating Disorders \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Gender Roles and the Body \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Thematic analysis \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Insecure Femininity \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. The Despised vs. The Idealized Man \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. The Body is the Fundamental Determinant of a Female Identity \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. Magical Food - The Morality of Food Consumption \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. Independent Meanings of Binge Eating and Vomiting \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13. Spontaneous Eating and Using Food against Internal Chaos \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14. A Healthy Diet and Exercising – Disorder or Health? \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15. The Context of Growing Up: Confirmation of the Biopsychosocial Model of the Emergence of the Disorder \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 16. Final Discussion\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emerald Publishing Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48741904515415,"sku":"9781804557877","price":72.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781804557877.jpg?v=1720059249"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/collections\/health-illness-or-addiction-social-aspects.oembed?page=21","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}