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Toms River : a story of science and salvation / Dan Fagin.

By: Fagin, Dan.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Bantam Books, c2013Edition: 1st ed.General Notes: Originally subtitled: A small town, a cancer cluster, and the epic quest to expose pollution's hidden consequences.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [467]-522) and index.Description: xv, 538 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780553806533 (hbk. : acid-free paper) :; 055380653X (hbk. : acid-free paper).Subject(s): Drinking water -- Contamination -- Health aspects -- Toms River Region | Cancer -- Toms River Region | Groundwater -- Pollution -- Health aspects -- Toms River Region | Water quality -- New Jersey -- Toms River Watershed | Toms River Watershed (N.J.) -- Environmental conditionsDDC classification: 363.7209749/48
Contents:
Marking time -- The ice cream factory. Pirates ; Insensible things ; First fingerprints ; Secrets ; Sharkey and Columbo at the Rustic Acres ; Cells ; On Cardinal Drive -- Breach. Water and salt ; Hippies in the kitchen ; The coloring contest ; Cases ; Acceptable risks ; Friends and neighbors -- Counting. Two wards, two hits ; Cluster busting ; Moving on ; Invisible trauma ; A cork in the ocean ; Expectations -- Causes. Outsiders ; Surrogacy ; Blood work ; Associations ; Legacies.
Summary: Recounts the decades-long saga of the New Jersey seaside town plagued by childhood cancers caused by air and water pollution due to the indiscriminate dumping of toxic chemicals.
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Originally subtitled: A small town, a cancer cluster, and the epic quest to expose pollution's hidden consequences.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [467]-522) and index.

Marking time -- The ice cream factory. Pirates ; Insensible things ; First fingerprints ; Secrets ; Sharkey and Columbo at the Rustic Acres ; Cells ; On Cardinal Drive -- Breach. Water and salt ; Hippies in the kitchen ; The coloring contest ; Cases ; Acceptable risks ; Friends and neighbors -- Counting. Two wards, two hits ; Cluster busting ; Moving on ; Invisible trauma ; A cork in the ocean ; Expectations -- Causes. Outsiders ; Surrogacy ; Blood work ; Associations ; Legacies.

Recounts the decades-long saga of the New Jersey seaside town plagued by childhood cancers caused by air and water pollution due to the indiscriminate dumping of toxic chemicals.

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