| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.4

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Book Review

How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace. By Paul D. Blanc. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2007. x + 374 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth $50.00, paper $19.95.

This book is about the extensive and pervasive impact of chemicals on public health. Paul Blanc has taken on the difficult task of unraveling the threads that tie together the chemical environment and public health. Broad-based concern for environmental and occupational health coupled with effective action is relatively recent. Blanc asks why and reminds us that public health decisions contain two elements. The element of value, which determines the degree or extent of health a society wants and is willing to pay for, and a scientific element, which determines how much knowledge a society has upon which to base its public health policy. The author, a physician, has both expertise and experience in occupational medicine and environmental health. The book, informed by these public health principles, reveals to the reader the impact of chemicals on our lives.

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