Killer Commodities: Public Health and the Corporate Production of Harm
Merrill Singer and Hans A. Baer, Editors
AltaMira Press, 2008
439 pages
US $ 34.95 (Paperback)
Reviewed by Mark Hill, Wayne State University
In Killer Commodities, Merrill Singer, Hans Baer, and fourteen other social scientists examine how detrimental effects associated with consumer goods persist despite U.S. and …
Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question
Edited by Andrew Lakoff and Stephen J. Collier
Columbia University Press, 2008
312 pages
US$ 27.50 (Hardcover)
Reviewed by Alexandria Reid, Wayne State University
The field of biosecurity remains mired in uncertainty and confusion. There is little agreement among experts as to what constitutes a biosecurity threat, what it means to …
On Saturday, September 26, a group of younger Japanese researchers, joined by veteran Japan scholars Susan Orpett Long and discussant William Kelly, presented papers in a session titled “Emerging Alterities in Medicine: Perspectives from Contemporary Japan.” The session’s title distracted from a substantial unity surrounding the expanding personal and social experience of biotechnology in Japan as it stands on …