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Author Hightower, Jane M.

Title Diagnosis mercury : money, politics, and poison / Jane M. Hightower.

Publication Info. Washington, DC : Island Press/Shearwater Books, [2009]
©2009

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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  615.9 HIGHTOWER    Check Shelf
Description xii, 307 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-295) and index.
Contents The discovery -- Finding my way -- The media meets the victims -- Spreading the news -- A spoonful of mercury -- Making money with a menace -- The summit -- Feeling the heat in mercury politics -- The Canadian mercury scare -- Dr Sa'Adoun al-Tikriti -- Fishy loaves -- Fishing with the FDA for evidence in Iraq -- Fishing with the industry for evidence in Iraq -- From American Samoa to Peru -- The political realm of Seychelles versus Faroes -- The mercury study report -- Strategic errors and redundant tactics -- The canning of proposition 65 mercury warnings -- Diagnosis mercury.
Subject Mercury -- Toxicology.
Mercury wastes -- Political aspects.
Mercury -- Environmental aspects.
Mercury -- Government policy -- United States.
Mercury -- toxicity.
ISBN 9781597263955 cloth alkaline paper
1597263958 cloth alkaline paper
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