Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Hidden Harm: The Complex World of Killer Commodities
Chapter 2 Stealthy Killers and Governing Mentalities: Chemicals in Consumer Products
Chapter 3 Nothing to Play Around With: Dangerous Toys for Girls and Boys
Chapter 4 The Environmental and Health Consequences of Motor Vehicles: A Case Study in Capitalist Technological Hegemony and Grass-Roots Responses to It
Chapter 5 Lay Me Down to Sleep: SIDS, Suffocation, and the Selling of Risk Reduction
Chapter 6 Melanoma Whitewash: Millions at Risk of Injury or Death because of Sunscreen Deceptions
Chapter 7 Building with Poison: Toxicity and CCA-treated Lumber
Chapter 8 U.S. Health Care: Commodification Kills
Chapter 9 Silicone Seduction: Are Cosmetic Breast Implants Killer Commodities?
Chapter 10 Selling Sickness/Creating Demand: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs
Chapter 11 Deadly Embrace: Psychoactive Medication, Psychiatry, and the Pharmaceutical Industry
Chapter 12 A Guinea Pig's Wage: Risk and Commoditization in Pharmaceutical Research in America
Chapter 13 Corrosion in the System: The Community Health By-Products of Pharmaceutical Production in Northern Puerto Rico
Chapter 14 Inverting the Killer Commodity Model: Withholding Medicines from the Poor
Chapter 15 Conclusion: Killer Commodities and Society: Fighting for Change