Legally Poisoned: How the Law Puts us at Risk from Toxicants

摘要

Carl Cranor's new book, Legally poisoned, provides an important argument for a new, pre-market approach to US regulatory policy for industrial chemicals. While the book is dense in places, it is very clear, and it provides a much-needed synthesis of scientific, ethical, and legal perspectives that few scholars are capable of producing. After the introduction, the book includes six main chapters. The first three focus primarily on scientific topics, whereas the final three chapters are directed at legal and ethical issues. Cranor begins with a description of the major toxicants to which humans are currently exposed.