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Third World Problems - First World Preoccupations
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By
Roger Bate, European Science and Environment Forum
Edited By
Lorraine Mooney, European Science and Environment Forum
Description
This book underlines the differences in health priorities that exist around the world, and cautions against the export of inappropriate
attitudes from developed to less developed countries.
Case studies of malaria in South Africa and cholera and Peru show the fatal consequences
of allowing western preoccupations with trivial risks (such as the cancer effects of pesticide residues in foods and chlorine compounds
in water) to influence health policy in the third world.
The western health paradox - we are healthier yet more concerned about our
health - is described, and the sociological factors that explain the paradox are examined. We discover why people needlessly worry themselves
to the point of illness.
Numerous examples of western health concerns are shown to be folly or hugely exaggerated. Nitrates in drinking
water, industrial use of organic chlorine (such as PVC and other plastics, pesticides, PCBs, Dioxin) and speculation about declining
sperm counts are systematically exposed. Perhaps worst of all, measures prompted by concerns for public safety may be making us less
safe. Food poisoning incidents appear to be increasing and much of the blame can be laid at the door of excessive government nannying.
Audience
Professionals and academics in public health and health promotion, health economics, sociology, public administration and politics.
Contents
Executive summary; Malaria and DDT; cholera and chlorine; sociology of health panics; ecological risk - actual and hypothetical; food
scares; nitrates; the end of chlorine; natural organochlorines; nature's hormone factory; sperm counts; commentary; index.
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 236 pages, publication date: JAN-1999
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-4223-1
ISBN-10: 0-7506-4223-8
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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