Killer Commodities

Author : Merrill Singer
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 0759112401
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killer commodities written by Merrill Singer and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2008-08-15 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Killer Commodities enters the increasingly heated debate regarding consumer culture with a critical examination of the relationship between corporate production of goods for profit and for public health. This collection analyzes the nature and public health impact of a wide range of dangerous commercial products from around the world, and it addresses the question of how policies should be changed to better protect the public, workers, and the environment.

Author : Michael C Thomsett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440533776
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killer Commodities written by Michael C Thomsett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the stock market as unpredictable as the economy, many investors believe the commodities market presents a less volatile, and more predictable, investment opportunity. In clear, accessible language, commodities expert Michael C. Thomsett explains each of these investment strategies as it relates to specific commodities, such as crude oil, wheat and other grains, precious metals, basic and luxury food items, and foreign currency exchange.

Author : Michael Thomsett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killer Commodities written by Michael Thomsett and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the stock market as unpredictable as the economy, many investors believe the commodities market presents a less volatile, and more predictable, investment opportunity. In clear, accessible language, commodities expert Michael C. Thomsett explains each of these investment strategies as it relates to specific commodities, such as crude oil, wheat and other grains, precious metals, basic and luxury food items, and foreign currency exchange. Michael C. Thomsett writes on trading and investing topics, and has published over 70 books, including five additional options books. He has been writing since 1978 and fulltime since 1984. Among his books is the best-selling Getting Started in Options (Wiley, over 250,000 copies sold). He has appeared on network TV such as CNN, ABC, and Fox News . Thomsett lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Visit his website at www.MichaelThomsett.com.

Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schedule B, Statistical Classification of Domestic and Foreign Commodities Exported from the United States written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Merrill Singer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118863216
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Medical Anthropology written by Merrill Singer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today. Provides an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960s Written by leading international scholars in medical anthropology Covers environmental health, global health, biotechnology, syndemics, nutrition, substance abuse, infectious disease, and sexuality and reproductive health, and other topics

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Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book written by and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Merrill Singer
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 0759120900
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introducing Medical Anthropology written by Merrill Singer and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised textbook provides students with a first exposure to the growing field of medical anthropology. The narrative is guided by unifying themes. First, medical anthropology is actively engaged in helping to address pressing health problems around the globe through research, intervention, and policy-related initiatives. Second, illness and disease cannot be fully understood or effectively addressed by treating them solely as biological in nature; rather, health problems involve complex biosocial processes and resolving them requires attention to range of factors including systems of belief, structures of social relationship, and environmental conditions. Third, through an examination of health inequalities on the one hand and environmental degradation and environment-related illness on the other, the book underlines the need for going beyond cultural or even ecological models of health toward a comprehensive medical anthropology. The authors show that a medical anthropology that integrates biological, cultural, and social factors to truly understand the origin of ill health will contribute to more effective and equitable health care systems.

Author : Janelle Christensen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0759123942
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eldercare, Health, and Ecosyndemics in a Perilous World written by Janelle Christensen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans are at a unique crossroads: never before have we had such a clear understanding of how our actions affect a changing climate, or how our settlement patterns along coastal environments put us at risk of rising sea levels. However, the science behind climate change (and solutions for it) are engulfed in political controversy. Dr. Christensen uses anthropological methods to illuminate the lived experience of families caring for elder relatives during climate related events: a unique conundrum facing increasing numbers of people living in coastal areas. As populations in industrialized countries grow older, they become more vulnerable to climate extremes. People over 65 are more likely to die in climate related events, such as heatwaves, hurricanes, and blizzards. Dr. Christensen presents the scientific evidence for climate change, the archaeological record on how humans responded to climatic shifts in the past, and explains how the current challenges are different. Using the theoretical framework of Singer’s Syndemics, she explores how aging bodies are more vulnerable to increased environmental toxins, which is further exacerbated by climate fluctuations. A central question is: how do we value our environment, our elders, and make decisions about well-being throughout the life course?

Author : Andrew Russell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351050176
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthropology of Tobacco written by Andrew Russell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tobacco has become one of the most widely used and traded commoditites on the planet. Reflecting contemporary anthropological interest in material culture studies, Anthropology of Tobacco makes the plant the centre of its own contentious, global story in which, instead of a passive commodity, tobacco becomes a powerful player in a global adventure involving people, corporations and public health. Bringing together a range of perspectives from the social and natural sciences as well as the arts and humanities, Anthropology of Tobacco weaves stories together from a range of historical, cross-cultural and literary sources and empirical research. These combine with contemporary anthropological theories of agency and cross-species relationships to offer fresh perspectives on how an apparently humble plant has progressed to world domination, and the consequences of it having done so. It also considers what needs to happen if, as some public health advocates would have it, we are seriously to imagine ‘a world without tobacco’. This book presents students, scholars and practitioners in anthropology, public health and social policy with unique and multiple perspectives on tobacco-human relations.

Author : Merrill Singer
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478610247
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drugging the Poor written by Merrill Singer and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2007-08-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singer offers a fresh set of ideas for understanding how the global socioeconomic system insures that massive quantities of psychotropic drugs reach the poorest sectors of American society. Drugging the Poor provides a unified theoretical framework to assess how all drugs, including tobacco, heroin, alcohol, cocaine, and diverted pharmaceuticals contribute to maintaining social inequality among the wealthier and poorer social classes in American society. Singers analysis rejects conventional approaches that see tobacco or alcohol manufacturers and distributors, on the one hand, and drug cartels and mafias, on the other, as completely different entities. Instead, he shows how legal and illegal drug corporations share key features and follow the same economic principles. He also emphasizes that mixing legal and illegal drugs to self-medicate against social discrimination, poverty, and structural violence offers short-term relief, but in the long run, it functions to maintain an unjust and oppressive system. Drugging the Poor actively challenges the assumption that how things are is how they always have been or how they need to be.