Sugar plantations, Chemical Plants, COVID-19
The chemical plants in Cancer Alley are built where there once were sugar plantations. Descendants of enslaved communities still live nearby.
Combo Disaster and Environmental Injustice
Join us for the Disaster STS Network’s Fall 2021 virtual tour of Louisiana's Cancer Alley, a corridor of chemical plants along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans with shockin
Ecuador Acidification
This PECE essay details the quotidian anthropocene in Ecuador utilizing the Questioning Quotidian Anthropocenes analytic developed for the Open Seminar River School.
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Three major ways the arguements are supported are as follows
- Statistics and analisys of policies pertaining to the healthcare system available to the effected populaitons
- Historical background to establish where such policies came from and how they may continue to work in the future
- First hand accounts from both those effected by chernobyl related illness and the health care practitioners who treat them.
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wolmadI followed up on this article by reading more about the Fukushima disaster, and I looked further into existing regulatory bodies such as the IAEA and and the Nuclear Energy Institute.
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wolmadI followe up on the practice of palliative medicine, how hospital ethics boards deal with palliative care, particularly focussing on cancer and oncology departments, and the role of hospice and nursing homes in the palliative care process.
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Emergency response is not addressed in this article. It focusses on long term care and the prevention of disease on the public health level.