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Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
- Publisher
- Island Press
- First published
- 2013
- Length
- ≈ 576 pages
- Reading time
- 15–20 hours
- ISBN
- 1610915917
Reading time assumes 30–40 pages per hour; edition and reading pace affect this estimate. Edition source
What is this book about?
Dan Fagin’s book is about the dumping of industrial pollution by chemical companies, including Ciba-Geigy, in Toms River, New Jersey, from 1952 into the 1980s. It also follows the epidemiological investigations into the cluster of cancer cases that later emerged in the town.
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