- Cancer is Capitalist Violence
Anthropology Against Oncology Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Its been two decades since the publication of Martha Balshams landmark study, Cancer in the Community: Class and Medical Authority (1993). Balshem, a hospital-based anthropologist, documented how a Philadelphia lay community rejected medical advice to stop smoking, eat fruits and vegetables and schedule regular screening tests. The working class community of Tannerstown (a pseudonym) instead blamed air pollution from highway traffic and nearby chemical plants, as well as fate, for their cancers.
- Poison Spring
The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 Vallianatos and Jenkins, after a 25-year stint at the Environmental Protection Agency, pull back the curtain on the watchdog agency's failure to guard public safety and monitor land use due to steady erosion of its enforcement practices.
- The Polluters
The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment Resource Type: Book Published: 2010 Provides an account of the American chemical industry and its effect on the environment.
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