Jacobs Miriam
Silent invaders : Pesticides, livelihoods and women's health - New Delhi Oxford University Press 2003 - 342p.
1-85649-996-0
Pest Management
Environmental health
Women Employment
Public health
Pesticides
Maternal Exposure
Occupational Diseases
chemically induced
Health and hygiene
Failure to protect women from pesticides
Pesticides v/s people : Pesticide exposure and health of women farm workers, multiple health problems in Latin America, rural mothers with HIV -eliminating pesticide exposure, women, pesticide use and access to information in Niger, women's exposure and dependence in Benin, women's work is never done- agriculture in Senegal, invisible farmers -rural roles in Pakistan, day in day out lack of protection in India
Science of pesticides exposure and health : High-risk exposure- gender, age and poverty, measuring gender differences in response to pesticide exposure, human exposure to airborne pesticide pollutants, cancer risk in agriculture, environmental organochlorine exposure and risk for breast cancer, explaining breast cancer and chemical links- health hazards for women workers, birth defects in an agricultural environment, reproductive health and pesticide exposure, unsafe sex- how endocrine disports work, pesticides and P450 induction - gender implications
Precautionary approach to policy and regulation : Failing laws - assumptions and realities for women in south African agriculture, safety at work and gender bias- attitudes to risk in setting policy, implementing pesticide regulation- gender differences, chemicals in home and workplace
Women struggle for pesticide elimination, Bhopal aftermath-generations of women affected, campaign against lindane, integrated pest management- gender sensitive and participatory approaches, integrated pest management- training women to take control
363.7384 / JAC/S
Silent invaders : Pesticides, livelihoods and women's health - New Delhi Oxford University Press 2003 - 342p.
1-85649-996-0
Pest Management
Environmental health
Women Employment
Public health
Pesticides
Maternal Exposure
Occupational Diseases
chemically induced
Health and hygiene
Failure to protect women from pesticides
Pesticides v/s people : Pesticide exposure and health of women farm workers, multiple health problems in Latin America, rural mothers with HIV -eliminating pesticide exposure, women, pesticide use and access to information in Niger, women's exposure and dependence in Benin, women's work is never done- agriculture in Senegal, invisible farmers -rural roles in Pakistan, day in day out lack of protection in India
Science of pesticides exposure and health : High-risk exposure- gender, age and poverty, measuring gender differences in response to pesticide exposure, human exposure to airborne pesticide pollutants, cancer risk in agriculture, environmental organochlorine exposure and risk for breast cancer, explaining breast cancer and chemical links- health hazards for women workers, birth defects in an agricultural environment, reproductive health and pesticide exposure, unsafe sex- how endocrine disports work, pesticides and P450 induction - gender implications
Precautionary approach to policy and regulation : Failing laws - assumptions and realities for women in south African agriculture, safety at work and gender bias- attitudes to risk in setting policy, implementing pesticide regulation- gender differences, chemicals in home and workplace
Women struggle for pesticide elimination, Bhopal aftermath-generations of women affected, campaign against lindane, integrated pest management- gender sensitive and participatory approaches, integrated pest management- training women to take control
363.7384 / JAC/S