Environmentally Induced Illnesses:
Ethics, Risk Assessment and Human Rights

Thomas Kerns

McFarland & Company, Inc.
2001

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction

I. Data

1. Health Effects Overview
2. Cancers
3. Respiratory Disorders
4. The Immune System
5. Increased Incidence of Infectious Diseases
6. The Blood-Brain Barrier
7. Sleep Abnormalities
8. Intellectual Function
9. Endocrine System Dysregulation
10. Detoxification Pathways
11. Behavioral Disorders
12. MCS
13. Pesticides
14. Life Disruption
15. Actual Costs
16. How Many People Are Affected?
17. Mechanisms
18. Controversy

II. Principles

1. Prevention
2. Risk-Benefit Assessment
3. Human Rights: An Ethical Counterbalance
4. The Golden Rule, Silver Rule, and Sufferings of the Other
5. The Precautionary Principle
6. Nonconsensual Exposure
7. Tragedy of the Commons
8. Absence of Evidence Is Not Evidence of Absence
9. Moderation in All Things

III. Modest Proposals

1. Research
2. Initial Clinical Presumptions
3. Informed Consent
4. Burden of Proof
5. Disaggregated Safety Standards
6. Safe Schools
7. Safe Workplaces
8. Transparent Processes
9. Full Disclosure
10. Access to Public Spaces

IV. Brick Walls

1. Globality
2. Multinational Chemical Corporations
3. Public Relations
4. Medical Paradigms
5. Others

Conclusion
Appendices

Environmentally Induced Illnesses:
Ethics, Risk Assessment and Human Rights
Thomas Kerns
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
ISBN: 0-7864-0827-8
304pp $39.95
2001

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