Guinea Pigs Go to Court: Epidemiology and Class Actions in Taiwan

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This chapter describes the first two major cases of industrial diseases brought to justice in Taiwan, with the support of an original citizen mobilization and a network of lawyers. The first case was brought in the north of the island near Taipei. The 450 plaintiffs had been exposed to a wide range of organic solvents like trichloroethylene and other toxins while they were working for the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), a U.S. manufacturer of television sets. More than a thousand people identified with this case have developed various sorts of cancer. The second case was brought near Tainan, in

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2014

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2014

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JSTOR

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978-1-78238-236-2

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pp. 170-192

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Science and Politics in a Toxic World

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Guinea Pigs Go to Court: Epidemiology and Class Actions in Taiwan, dans Science & Ignorance, consulté le 21 Novembre 2024, https://ignorancestudies.inist.fr/s/science-ignorance/item/5463

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