Throughout the book, the author explains key moments in epidemiology, the study of illnesses and their causes. The local politicians did nothing. Gave me a lot of insight into the hard work that goes into trying to persuade large companies/corporations to change their practices.
The anguish of the families is palpable. Summary Recounts the decades-long saga of the New Jersey seaside town plagued by childhood cancers caused by air and water pollution due to the indiscriminate dumping of toxic chemicals. I remember the initial economic benefit the dye-and-plastics manufacturing plant brought to the community and its philanthropic projects designed to ingratiate it with the population. The story brings you back to the 1950s and 60s when the environment is at most an afterthought to the industry and perhaps even to the common people. Unable to add item to List.
It has been described as “a new classic of science reporting” (The New York Times), “a gripping environmental thriller” (Kirkus Reviews, starred r. A science journalism professor at New York University, Dan Fagin is a nationally prominent journalist on environmental health topics. But that was such a small part of this tragic book.
Wwe Figures,
She began working at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 1991, during the summer of her senior year of nursing school at Villanova University.
The book ends with the conclusion of a legal settlement between the Ocean of Love families and Ciba-Geigy, Toms River Water, and Union Carbide. And the political posturing and deception displayed by the players can stimulate outrage. It's really a tragic book with no satisfying outcome. While the grand story arc encompasses hundreds of years of history, the parts relating to Toms River focus on approximately the last 60 years.
Top subscription boxes – right to your door, Environmentalist & Naturalist Biographies, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.
Block Craft, Fagin does an excellent job of explaining how events unfolded and his particular writing style which included other illustrative historical accountings is effective in helping the layman understand the scientific process.
A book about "corporate avarice and government neglect"--doesn't that sound familiar?
Having grown up in the Toms River area, I was a child when a lot of the whisperings of "cancer cluster" were first heard. I was astounded at the time and effort they put in and staggered at how the contamination of the people, surrounding land and waterways wasn't investigated sufficiently for decades. Contamination from both of these sites would go on to poison wells in the area. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Instead of paying fees to dispose of the waste in a legal way, Fernicola just dumped it all on the Reich property. But the means of telling this long and murky report is like a stream that has to traverse all 5 continents. It's hard not to read something like this and become depressed and scared.
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Please try again. It is about the dumping of industrial pollution by chemical companies including Ciba-Geigy, in Toms River, New Jersey, beginning in 1952 through the 1980s, and the epidemiological investigations of a cancer cluster that subsequently emerged there.
An engrossing story about a communities courageous battle against the power of a large company.
Even if you're not interested in environmental issues and medical investigations, sadly this story is relevant to far more places than one corner of New Jersey. Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2017.
The author had spent hundreds of pages explaining things the companies had done wrong, but ultimately it was not proven that those wrongdoings were the cause of cancer in Toms River.
Washington: Island Press, 2015. A former teacher, she was able to help put a human face on what would be called by many a “cancer cluster.”.
First and foremost, I loved the way this book was written and the way it just delves right into the history of the town in which this story takes place. I appreciate the way Fagin gives you all of the surrounding facts you could possibly want or need throughout the book - about every aspect of this story. Your email address will not be published. I've also been compelled to tell everyone I'm in contact with about it.
Weather Argentina, Due to the lackadaisical approach taken by both Ciba-Geigy and Union Carbide with regards to their industrial waste disposal, Toms River is bombarded by toxic chemicals that endanger its resid.
After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Whether it’s natural disasters, outbreaks of plague, or serial killers hidden... To see what your friends thought of this book, I haven't read it yet, but it's author is a good pal of mine from years back in the environmental journalism field. I would love to read a Reader's Digest Condensed Version of this book because the people and the bottom line are what interested me most. Causes. Ciclismo Colombiano En Vivo,
Graduate Level Science Degree Needed To Read This, Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2018. In the small town of Toms River, kids born with cancer are just too many to chalk up as bad luck it seems. They had too many connections to the water company and to the Ciba-Geigy management.
She had met a lot of other patients at cancer hospitals, and a very high number of them came from Toms River.
Concrete5 Open Source,
Tiempo En Madrid, But I loved it,” she remembered. Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation is a 2013 non-fiction book by the American author Dan Fagin.
It was well written and I was excited to learn the history of chemical manufacturing and cancer research, but it is nearly 500 pages and it started feeling like I was at a party trapped in a really long conversation. He had a contract with Union Carbide, a factory in northern New Jersey, to dispose of its drums of waste. The most economic way to dispose of it was to dump it. No one knew what was going on back in that factory unless they worked there.
When my family originally moved to New Jersey in 1984, we lived not too far from where the first break in the Ciba-Giegy pipeline occurred. So, I was extremely curious to find out more. The early parts of the book are full of town history and memorable characters.
The anguish of the families is palpable. Summary Recounts the decades-long saga of the New Jersey seaside town plagued by childhood cancers caused by air and water pollution due to the indiscriminate dumping of toxic chemicals. I remember the initial economic benefit the dye-and-plastics manufacturing plant brought to the community and its philanthropic projects designed to ingratiate it with the population. The story brings you back to the 1950s and 60s when the environment is at most an afterthought to the industry and perhaps even to the common people. Unable to add item to List.
It has been described as “a new classic of science reporting” (The New York Times), “a gripping environmental thriller” (Kirkus Reviews, starred r. A science journalism professor at New York University, Dan Fagin is a nationally prominent journalist on environmental health topics. But that was such a small part of this tragic book.
Wwe Figures,
She began working at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 1991, during the summer of her senior year of nursing school at Villanova University.
The book ends with the conclusion of a legal settlement between the Ocean of Love families and Ciba-Geigy, Toms River Water, and Union Carbide. And the political posturing and deception displayed by the players can stimulate outrage. It's really a tragic book with no satisfying outcome. While the grand story arc encompasses hundreds of years of history, the parts relating to Toms River focus on approximately the last 60 years.
Top subscription boxes – right to your door, Environmentalist & Naturalist Biographies, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.
Block Craft, Fagin does an excellent job of explaining how events unfolded and his particular writing style which included other illustrative historical accountings is effective in helping the layman understand the scientific process.
A book about "corporate avarice and government neglect"--doesn't that sound familiar?
Having grown up in the Toms River area, I was a child when a lot of the whisperings of "cancer cluster" were first heard. I was astounded at the time and effort they put in and staggered at how the contamination of the people, surrounding land and waterways wasn't investigated sufficiently for decades. Contamination from both of these sites would go on to poison wells in the area. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Instead of paying fees to dispose of the waste in a legal way, Fernicola just dumped it all on the Reich property. But the means of telling this long and murky report is like a stream that has to traverse all 5 continents. It's hard not to read something like this and become depressed and scared.
Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published
Please try again. It is about the dumping of industrial pollution by chemical companies including Ciba-Geigy, in Toms River, New Jersey, beginning in 1952 through the 1980s, and the epidemiological investigations of a cancer cluster that subsequently emerged there.
An engrossing story about a communities courageous battle against the power of a large company.
Even if you're not interested in environmental issues and medical investigations, sadly this story is relevant to far more places than one corner of New Jersey. Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2017.
The author had spent hundreds of pages explaining things the companies had done wrong, but ultimately it was not proven that those wrongdoings were the cause of cancer in Toms River.
Washington: Island Press, 2015. A former teacher, she was able to help put a human face on what would be called by many a “cancer cluster.”.
First and foremost, I loved the way this book was written and the way it just delves right into the history of the town in which this story takes place. I appreciate the way Fagin gives you all of the surrounding facts you could possibly want or need throughout the book - about every aspect of this story. Your email address will not be published. I've also been compelled to tell everyone I'm in contact with about it.
Weather Argentina, Due to the lackadaisical approach taken by both Ciba-Geigy and Union Carbide with regards to their industrial waste disposal, Toms River is bombarded by toxic chemicals that endanger its resid.
After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Whether it’s natural disasters, outbreaks of plague, or serial killers hidden... To see what your friends thought of this book, I haven't read it yet, but it's author is a good pal of mine from years back in the environmental journalism field. I would love to read a Reader's Digest Condensed Version of this book because the people and the bottom line are what interested me most. Causes. Ciclismo Colombiano En Vivo,
Graduate Level Science Degree Needed To Read This, Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2018. In the small town of Toms River, kids born with cancer are just too many to chalk up as bad luck it seems. They had too many connections to the water company and to the Ciba-Geigy management.
She had met a lot of other patients at cancer hospitals, and a very high number of them came from Toms River.
Concrete5 Open Source,
Tiempo En Madrid, But I loved it,” she remembered. Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation is a 2013 non-fiction book by the American author Dan Fagin.
It was well written and I was excited to learn the history of chemical manufacturing and cancer research, but it is nearly 500 pages and it started feeling like I was at a party trapped in a really long conversation. He had a contract with Union Carbide, a factory in northern New Jersey, to dispose of its drums of waste. The most economic way to dispose of it was to dump it. No one knew what was going on back in that factory unless they worked there.
When my family originally moved to New Jersey in 1984, we lived not too far from where the first break in the Ciba-Giegy pipeline occurred. So, I was extremely curious to find out more. The early parts of the book are full of town history and memorable characters.