How Everyday Products Make People Sick, Updated and Expanded: Toxins at Home and in the WorkplaceThis book reveals the hidden health dangers in many of the seemingly innocent products we encounter every day—a tube of glue in a kitchen drawer, a bottle of bleach in the laundry room, a rayon scarf on a closet shelf, a brass knob on the front door, a wood plank on an outdoor deck. A compelling exposé, written by a physician with extensive experience in public health and illustrated with disturbing case histories, How Everyday Products Make People Sick is a rich and meticulously documented account of injury and illness across different time periods, places, and technologies. |
Contents
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2 The Shadow of Smoke How to Evade Regulation | 28 |
3 Good Glue Better Glue Superglue | 45 |
4 Under a Green Sea | 92 |
5 Going Crazy at Work | 132 |
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