{"product_id":"dust-inside-fighting-and-living-with-asbestos-related-disasters-in-brazil-9781789209310","title":"Dust Inside: Fighting and Living with","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tToxic production, disrupted lives and contaminated bodies. Care for unacknowledged suffering, incurable cancers, and immeasurable losses. This book bears witness to the invisible disasters provoked by the asbestos market worldwide and gives a voice to the communities of survivors who struggle daily in the name of social and environmental justice. Grounded in a profound, touching ethnography, this book offers an original contribution to understanding global health disasters and grassroots health-based activism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“The book provides interesting inputs for researchers in the health sciences and reaffirms the heuristic value of Social Sciences in health. With her anthropological “magni-lens”, Mazzeo expands the view of the work-related health-disease process and forces us to clearly see the “mongrel dog syndrome” cultivated by the ethnocentrism of the Brazilian elites. A work destined to become an academic reference in the two hemispheres…an unmissable reading.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Revista Brasileira de Saude Ocupacional\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“It is a good scholarly review of the situation regarding the use of asbestos at a major facility in Brazil with a fine ethnographic review.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Arthur L. Frank\u003c\/strong\u003e, Drexel University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This book well exemplifies the value and the utility of anthropology in illuminating a community’s struggle with contaminants, the embodiment of suffering, and the search for environmental justice.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Stuart Blume\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Amsterdam\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tNotes on Translation\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Abbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e My Path into the Dust\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Toxic Market of Asbestos and Global Health Disasters\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Osasco: City, Work and Struggles\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Suffering and Embodied Disasters\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Politics of Anti-Asbestos Activism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Engaging Global Health, Anti-Asbestos Activism and Ethnography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tGlossary\u003cbr\u003e \tReferences\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042568896855,"sku":"9781789209310","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789209310.jpg?v=1750954680","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dust-inside-fighting-and-living-with-asbestos-related-disasters-in-brazil-9781789209310","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}