The Politics of Environmental Health Hazards

Rene Dubos once remarked that every civilization suffers from a characteristic set of diseases. In the Third World, infectious diseases still remain a constant threat. In industrial societies, on the other hand, these diseases have been largely controlled and are no longer a leading cause of death and disability. The diseases now approaching epidemic proportions in industrialized soceties are the exogenously caused diseases—the diseases associated with industrial pollution

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