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“No journalist knows more about toxic chemicals in the workplace than Jim Morris. The Cancer Factory is the crowning achievement of his estimable career spent walking fence lines, factory floors, and doctor’s offices.” —Dan Fagin, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Toms River “The Cancer Factory could not come at a better time, as we reckon with how our bodies pay the price for our nation’s toxic history and as today’s workers fight not for only their rights but for their very lives.… A powerful and essential read.” —Anna Clark, author of The Poisoned City The story of a group of Goodyear Tire and Rubber workers fatally exposed to toxic chemicals, the lawyer who sough...
Maestros de Nuevo León ofrece una muestra antológica con textos representativos de siete educadores y pedagogos nuevoleoneses que enriquecieron la acción educativa de en la fase crucial de la construcción nacionalista y modernizadora. Además aparece una compilación de apuntes biográficos de maestros de Nuevo León.
It is America’s killing field, and the deaths keep mounting. As the political debate has intensified and demonstrators have taken to the streets, more and more illegal border-crossers die trying to cross the desert on their way to what they hope will be a better life. The Arizona border is the deadliest immigrant trail in America today. For the strong and the lucky, the trail ends at a pick-up on an Interstate highway. For far too many others, it ends terribly—too often violently—not far from where they began. Dead in Their Tracks is a first hand account of the perils associated with crossing the desert on foot. John Annerino recounts his experience making that trek with four illegal i...
Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAID's) are one of the most widely prescribed drugs for their analgesic, antiinflammatory and antipyretic properties. This book provides new research on the common uses, risks and effectiveness of NSAIDs. Chapter One evaluates the potential environmental health impacts of NSAIDs in aquatic environments. Chapter Two reviews the incidence rate and toxic damage of diclofenac which is one of the mostly detected drugs in aquatic environments worldwide. Chapter Three discusses advanced oxidation processes for the removal of NSAIDs. Chapter Four outlines recent progress of EPs and their role in inflammation-related cardiovascular diseases.
A raíz de la aprobación en 2007 de la despenalización del aborto en la Ciudad de México y de la acción de inconstitucionalidad que se promovió contra ésta, la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación convocó en 2008 a audiencias públicas en las que se expusieron argumentos a favor y en contra de la reforma. Con el fin de contribuir a una reflexión rigurosa y fundamentada acerca de esta compleja cuestión, este libro analiza dichos argumentos desde la perspectiva del derecho a la salud y los derechos humanos, en el contexto de la política de población en México y de las evidencias científicas acerca del impacto de los marcos jurídicos en la salud y bienestar de las mujeres (en el mundo).
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