Experimenting with the Consumer: The Mass Testing of Risky Products on the American Public

by Marshall S. Shapo

Experimenting With The Consumer exposes the hazards of the mass-market experimentation in which every American consumer and worker is unwittingly tapped for product risk data by manufacturers, scientists, and regulators. Vioxx, Heparin, Avandia, Paxil, fen-phen, estrogens, silicone implants, pacemakers, formaldehyde in FEMA trailers, 60 buckyballs in coatings ... the headlines are increasingly filled with hidden risks coming to light in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313365288
• ISBN13: 9780313365287
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"