MinamataA pictorial and narrative account of the perpetrators and victims of methyl-mercury poisoning in the fishing and farming town of Minamata, Japan, chronicling the long struggle of the stricken to obtain indemnities from the Chisso Corporation. |
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User Review - PghDragonMan - LibraryThingIf you can read this book, if you can look at the pictures, and not cry, you are not human. Smith documents the slow poisoning of the people of Minamata through methyl mercury, and other compounds ... Read full review
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Contents
The Strange Disease | 11 |
Circles of Life | 46 |
Of Human Destruction | 56 |
Copyright | |
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