© Dr Tom Kerns
Emerging
Environmental Epidemics:
Ethics, Risk Assessment and Human Rights in Toxicant Induced
Illness
Thomas A Kerns
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Part I Data
Chapter 1. Health effects overview
Chapter 2. Cancers
Chapter 3. Respiratory disorders
Chapter 4. The immune system
Chapter 5. Increased incidence of infectious diseases
Chapter 6. The Blood-Brain Barrier
Chapter 7. Sleep abnormalities
Chapter 8. Intellectual function
Chapter 9. Endocrine system dysregulation.
Chapter 10. Detoxification pathways
Chapter 11. Behavioral disorders
Chapter 12. Multiple chemical sensitivity
Chapter 13. Pesticides
Chapter 14. Life disruption
Chapter 15. Actual costs
Chapter 16. How many people are affected?
Chapter 17. Mechanisms
Chapter 18. Controversial
Part II Principles
Chapter 1. Prevention
Chapter 2. Risk/Benefit Assessment
a) What risk assessment is
b) An attempt at improvement
c) What's wrong with risk assessment?
Chapter 3. Human Rights, an ethical counterbalance
Human rights and the virtue of justice
Chapter 4. The Golden Rule, Silver Rule, and Sufferings of The
Other
Chapter 5. The Precautionary Principle
Chapter 6. Non-consensual exposure.
Chapter 7. Tragedy of the commons.
Chapter 8. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Chapter 9. Moderation in all things.
Summary
Part III Modest Proposals
Chapter 1. Research
Chapter 2. Initial clinical presumptions
Chapter 3. Informed consent
Chapter 4. Burden of proof
Chapter 5. Disaggregated safety standards
Chapter 6. Safe schools
Chapter 7. Safe workplaces
Chapter 8. Transparent processes
Chapter 9. Full disclosure
Chapter 10. Access to public spaces
Chapter 11. Additional Proposals
Chlorine
In utero torts
Imported chemical residues
Part IV Brick Walls
Chapter 1. Globality
Chapter 2. Multinational chemical corporations
Chapter 3. Public relations
Chapter 4. Medical paradigms
Chapter 6. Others
Disabled activists
Paucity of researchers
Conclusion
Appendices
Appendix I NSCC Indoor Air Quality Policy
Appendix II The Nuremberg Code
Appendix III International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research
Appendix IV Draft Declaration of Principles on Human Rights and the Environment
Appendix V Charter on Industrial Hazards and Human Rights
Appendix VI Twenty Most Common Chemicals in Fragrance Products
Selected Bibliography
