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Both passionate and incisive, this book reveals how much we have failed to control the spread of toxic chemicals in our environment and our bodies. Our laws are ineffective at preventing the use of toxicants in the first place, and unbearably slow at stopping them once damage has been done. Carl Cranor recommends reforms to protect the public health that are thorough, pragmatic--and necessary. (Ellen Silbergeld, Johns Hopkins University)In the early 21st century, our bodies are permeated by everything from preservatives to fire retardants, which have poured into the market and into the world for decades without consistently rigorous testing for safety. Legally Poisoned shows just how little our current laws protect us, and particularly our children. Pointing out that individual self-protection is impossible, Cranor makes a powerful case for pre-market testing by manufacturers, and the consequences for public health if we continue to discover chemical dangers only after the harm is done. (John Strait Applegate, Indiana University)Drawing from a wealth of scientific and legal sources, Cranor exposes the frightening failures of U.S. toxics policy that effectively allow children to be used as guinea pigs in assessing the safety of chemical products, and offers reform proposals for a safer and more just world. (Wendy Wagner, University of Texas at Austin)Unnerving...Legally Poisoned is a frightening book. It reminds readers that lead poisons the nervous system and PCBs disrupt the reproductive system and that both have a long half-life, afflicting both humans and the environment decades after lead was banned from gasoline and PCB use was outlawed. The book cites a number of studies on laboratory animals that suggest a link between adult disease and early exposure to ubiquitous chemical substances, including perfluorinated compounds in Scotchgard and nonstick cookware, and bisphenol A, or BPA, a synthetic estrogen that hardens the plastic in water bottles, baby bottles and the liners of cans...Cranor believes a less-risky world is within reach...Legally Poisoned's...regulatory message comes through loud and clear. (Melinda Burns Miller-McCune 2011-07-01)In this compelling, well-referenced work, Cranor addresses a prominent public health concern: environmental chemicals and their suspected toxicities. He adroitly presents historical drug failures (e.g., thalidomide and diethylstilbestrol), along with the associated public fear and outrage. The book offers excellent advice regarding the future status of environmental and human effects of chemicals and drugs. It asks readers to stay informed and to participate in public debate and legislation in this area. (J. G. Schnellmann Choice 2011-09-01)[An] important new book...Legally Poisoned makes it ever so clear that Americans are at risk of being poisoned and the reason is the postmarket design of the laws that are supposed to protect us from harmful chemicals. The situation is unnecessary, morally repugnant, and economically inefficient. Hopefully this book will help to focus attention why the United States should follow the EU's lead in requiring premarket testing of chemicals. (Sidney A. Shapiro American Journal of Industrial Medicine 2011-11-23)Carl Cranor's new book, Legally Poisoned, provides an important argument for a new, pre-market approach to U.S. regulatory policy for industrial chemicals. While the book is dense in places, it is very clear, and it provides a much-needed synthesis of scientific, ethical, and legal perspectives that few scholars are capable of producing...Cranor has done us a great service by marshaling a host of evidence to show that our current post-market regulatory system for industrial chemicals is ethically bankrupt. He makes a convincing case for a new, pre-market system. However, unless we make aggressive efforts to find safe and appealing alternatives to toxic substances, industry will probably still find creative ways to dilute the effectiveness of a pre-market regulatory scheme. Therefore, one of the most valuable features of Cranor's pre-market system might be its potential to assist and stimulate creative efforts…to develop safe alternatives that will lessen the financial incentives to market unsafe products. And, even if Cranor's arguments do not gain political traction, the search for safer alternatives will still be an important strategy to pursue. (Kevin C. Elliott Ethics, Policy, and Environment)Cranor's volume explains how and why we all are legally poisoned--and what we can do about it. In a rigorous ethical, scientific, and legal analysis, he details these harms, argues against them, and explains how the legal and regulatory world could be designed to avoid them...Cranor's book is one of the best contemporary analyses of the ethical, legal, and regulatory harms posed by failed chemical-product testing...Cranor's book is destined to become a classic. It is a must-read for scholars in philosophy of law, philosophy of epidemiology, practical ethics, and ethics of public health. All policy makers in the legal and regulatory arena should be required to read it. More importantly, it is a must-read for every person who wonders why her family members are being destroyed prematurely by disease and death, even though they eat right, exercise, and see the best doctors...It is a masterpiece...This book, as it is, is about as close as one can get to perfect scholarship in this area of ethics, risk, and philosophy of science. It is one that every person, especially every parent, should read. Most of us have children, and all of us need to hear the powerful message about environmental harms to children that Cranor presents. After all, if recent research about "developmental programming" for environmentally-induced disease is right, adults often get a second chance. They frequently take medicines and get well after adult disease and dysfunction. Children, however, have only one chance to develop. (Kristin Shrader-Frechette Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011-12-07)[Legally Poisoned] raises critical questions regarding our society's moral and ethical values and our sense of personal responsibility. Growing public awareness and concerns about toxic chemicals have now brought these issues to the forefront of national attention, and we are likely to hear more about such controversies as science continues to advance. (Valerie R. Aggerbeck Law Library Journal 2012-06-01)Legally Poisoned offers a refreshingly different take on toxic chemicals in our lives… Cranor not only deals with captivating and current issues but also explains how we got into our current situation and more importantly how, given the public and political will, we might get out. (Emily Monosson American Scientist 2012-09-01)
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About the Author
Carl F. Cranor is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Faculty Member of the Environmental Toxicology Graduate Program at the University of California, Riverside.
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Product details
Paperback: 328 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press; Reprint edition (March 11, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674072219
ISBN-13: 978-0674072213
Product Dimensions:
6 x 1 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.4 out of 5 stars
6 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#1,330,826 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Page 94: "Lead, the insecticide methoxychlor, and ethanol, the active ingredient in alcohol, cause effects in developing children that would be unpredictable from studies on adult animals or humans."Upon noticing that gem, the book lost all credibility. Does the author really know so little about chemistry as to not know that ethanol is beverage alcohol?
I am a retired agronomist who has taught many classes about pesticide use. I also have a fair chemistry background and a long interest in the subject covered by this book. What I lack is a legal background which would have made this book a better read for me. The author makes a very valid point about the fact that we are not protected from many dangerous and unknown chemicals being pumped into our lives by industry. Not the pesticides, they are reasonably well regulated but, the thousands of other chemicals that industry can legally put into our lives without such testing. As the Tea Party folks talk these days about doing away with the EPA this book does an excellent job of pointing out why the U.S. of A. needs a better funded EPA and FDA; or a program such as the European Union's REACH to better protect the citizens from toxicants. We certainly are not going to be protected by industry.I think all political representatives at state and the national level should read this book and take action. I do not see this happening until a lot of children suddenly are shown to be poisoned, killed or incapacitated by some 'harmless' chemical big industry has injected into our lives without adequate testing.
Great book
The book is saying what has needed saying for a long time...the chemicals in our lives are many and dangerous. However, Cranor repeats himself many times and the book is long as a result. I wanted to know more about our exposure on a daily basis and what I can do to sway our leaders to do more to protect us from these killer chemicals. The book is an awaking for sure, it is just not written for the average American.
'Legally Poisoned: How the Law Puts Us at Risk from Toxicants' by Carl F. Cranor is an important book for anyone interested in the field of environmental sciences. It puts into perspective the conflicts between toxic and hazardous waste production and disposal, basic human health and far out-of-date environmental laws.
A good read. Well documented. Very depressing disclosure of the suble corruption in our economic world. How will there be profit when the public is dead. Sickness represents profit. death does not.
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