{"product_id":"the-drug-company-next-door-pollution-jobs-and-community-health-in-puerto-rico-paperback-softback-9780814724736","title":"The Drug Company Next Door; Pollution, Jobs, and Community Health in Puerto Rico (Paperback \/ softback) 9780814724736","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Drug Company Next Door\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePollution, Jobs, and Community Health in Puerto Rico\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlexa S. Dietrich (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780814724736\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 June 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e251 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.522 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Dietrich presents the story of Nocora (a pseudonym), a municipality in Puerto Rico that has been the recipient of the blessing and curse of having pharmaceutical companies in its backyard.\" - I. Glasser (Choice) \"\u003cp\u003e\"Offers a compelling and thought-provoking account of the politics of recognition in Nocorá Puerto Rico, a municipality where the stench of pollution pervades the air, soil, and water. In Nocorá one lives beneath the shadow of one's corporate `neighbors, an imposing complex of pharmaceutical companies that turns a blind eye to the insidious effects of toxic by-products while boasting of their lucrative trade in health elsewhere. Set against the invisibility of chronic suffering, local grassroots activists must always fight to be seen and heard. Here one encounters a lively cast of people who inhabit an environment both tranquil and contaminated. This is a smart and masterful portrayal of the realities of activism and the power of corporate public relations strategies, a convincing ethnography that integrates medical anthropology and political ecology in expert fashion. Every employee of Big Pharma should be required to read this book.\u003c\/p\u003e \" - Lesley A. Sharp,Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College \"The Drug Company Next Dooris ambitious, successful, closely reasoned, vivid, exciting, enormously distressing, and challenging on a political and theoretical level. Dietrichs writing is so good that I would recommend this book for use at any level of anthropological study, from undergraduate all the way up.\" (Political and Legal Anthropology Review) \"Dietrichs study fruitfully combines the old and the new as a traditional anthropological community study on a cutting-edge topic of profound global significance.\" (New West Indian Guide)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This fascinating and most timely critical\u003cbr\u003e medical anthropology study successfully binds two still emergent areas of\u003cbr\u003e contemporary anthropological research in the global world: the nature and\u003cbr\u003e significant impact of multinational pharmaceutical manufacturers on human\u003cbr\u003e social life everywhere, and the contribution of corporations to the fast-paced\u003cbr\u003e degradation of our life support system, planet Earth. . . . Focusing on a\u003cbr\u003e pharmaceutically-impacted town on the colonized island of Puerto Rico, Dietrich\u003cbr\u003e ably demonstrates the value of ethnography carried out in small places in\u003cbr\u003e framing the large issues facing humanity.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Merrill Singer, University of Connecticut\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The production of pharmaceuticals is among the\u003cbr\u003e most profitable industries on the planet. Drug companies produce chemical\u003cbr\u003e substances that can save, extend, or substantially improve the quality of human\u003cbr\u003e life.However, even as the companies\u003cbr\u003e present themselves publicly as health and environmental stewards, their\u003cbr\u003e factories are a significant source of air and water pollution--toxic to people\u003cbr\u003e and the environment. In Puerto Rico, the pharmaceutical industry is the\u003cbr\u003e backbone of the island's economy: in one small town alone, there are over a\u003cbr\u003e dozen drug factories representing five multinationals, the highest\u003cbr\u003e concentration per capita of such factories in the world. It is a place where\u003cbr\u003e the enforcement of environmental regulations and the public trust they ensure\u003cbr\u003e are often violated in the name of economic development.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Drug Company Next Door unites the concerns of\u003cbr\u003e critical medical anthropology with those of political ecology, investigating\u003cbr\u003e the multi-faceted role of pharmaceutical corporations as polluters, economic\u003cbr\u003e providers, and social actors. Rather\u003cbr\u003e than simply demonizing the drug companies, the volume explores the dynamics\u003cbr\u003e involved in their interactions with the local community and discusses the\u003cbr\u003e strategies used by both individuals and community groups to deal with the consequences\u003cbr\u003e of pollution.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Drug Company Next Door puts a human face on a\u003cbr\u003e growing set of problems for communities around the world. Accessible and engaging, the book encourages\u003cbr\u003e readers to think critically about the role of corporations in everyday life,\u003cbr\u003e health, and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52742491930904,"sku":"9780814724736","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-drug-company-next-door-pollution-jobs-and-community-health-in-puerto-rico-paperback-softback-9780814724736","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}