Taking Action, Saving Lives: Our Duties to Protect Environmental and Public Health

by Kristin Shrader-Frechette

Book Overview

In the United States alone, industrial and agricultural toxins account for about 60,000 avoidable cancer deaths annually. Pollution-related health costs to Americans are similarly staggering: $13 billion a year from asthma, $351 billion from cardiovascular disease, and $240 billion from occupational disease and injury. Most troubling, children, the poor, and minorities bear the brunt of these health tragedies.
Why, asks Kristin Shrader-Frechette,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019532546X
• ISBN13: 9780195325461
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"