As its title implies, this volume has been marketed as an expose, trumpeted by its publisher as addressing the question: 'When a new technology makes people ill, how high does the body count have to be before protective steps are taken?' Yale's online press release goes on: This disturbing book tells a dark story of hazardous manufacturing, poisonous materials, environmental abuses, political machinations, and economics trumping safety concerns ... a product that crippled and even served a death sentence to many industry workers while also releasing toxic carbon disulfide into the environment.
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