Essential hypertension

DeCourcy, Carroll; DeCourcy, Joseph L.

doi:10.1016/s0002-9610(34)90183-5

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“…Only months later, the CPSC banned ban the compound from use in children’s sleepwear. − Though this ban was overturned in federal court that same year on procedural grounds, the CPSC maintained the authority to pursue enforcement proceedings in federal courts to demonstrate that products containing brominated Tris were hazardous, and did this in eight lawsuits in 1978. , Brominated Tris is no longer used in the U.S. and it is restricted by the EPA under a Significant New Use Rule, a regulatory action by the EPA requiring companies to submit notice before beginning any “significant new” uses of a chemical . In 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation allowing companies to seek an estimated $51 million in Federal reimbursement for losses suffered as a result of the brominated Tris ban . The market briefly switched from brominated Tris to TDCPP (Tris-(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl)-phosphate) but it was also shown to be a mutagen .…”

Section: Flame Retardant Chemicalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Chemical Regulation on Fire: Rapid Policy Advances on Flame Retardants

Cordner

Mulcahy

Brown

2013

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Chemicals that are widely used in consumer products offer challenges to product manufacturers, risk managers, environmental regulators, environmental scientists, and the interested public. However, the factors that cause specific chemicals to rise to the level of regulatory, scientific, and social movement concern and scrutiny are not well documented, and scientists are frequently unclear about exactly how their research impacts policy. Through a case study of advocacy around flame retardant chemicals, this paper traces the pathways through which scientific evidence and concern is marshaled by both advocacy groups and media sources to affect policy change. We focus our analysis around a broad coalition of environmental and public health advocacy organizations and an investigative journalism series published in 2012 in the Chicago Tribune. We demonstrate that the Tribune series both brought the issue to a wider public audience and precipitated government action, including state policy revisions and federal Senate hearings. We also show how a broad and successful flame retardant coalition developed, leveraged a media event, and influenced policy at multiple institutional levels. The analysis draws on over 110 in-depth interviews, literature and Web site reviews, and observations at a flame retardant manufacturing company, government offices, and scientific and advocacy conferences.

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Section: Flame Retardant Chemicalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Chemical Regulation on Fire: Rapid Policy Advances on Flame Retardants

Cordner

Mulcahy

Brown

2013

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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“…For sure, some parents disagree. In several cases chronicled by DeCourcy and DeCourcy, 22 parents thought that it was not only permissible, but also mandatory, for them to beat their children. However, even if they were sincere we would not -and should not -let them act on that belief.…”

Section: A Negative Right To Rearmentioning

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Licensing Parents Revisited

LaFollette

2010

J Applied Philosophy

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Although systems for licensing professionals are far from perfect, and their problems and costs should not be ignored, they are justified as a necessary means of protecting innocent people's vital interests. Licensing defends patients from inept doctors, pharmacists, and physical therapists; it protects clients from unqualified lawyers.We should protect people who are highly vulnerable to those who are supposed to serve them, those with whom they have a special relationship. Requiring professionals to be licensed is the most plausible way of doing that. Given the overwhelming support for the licensing of these professionals, I find it odd that so many people categorically reject proposals to license parents. Although the relationship between a parent and her children is different in some respects, it is also relevantly similar to that between a professional and those she serves. To defend these claims, I show how and why the rationale for licensing parents parallels the rational for licensing professionals. I then ask whether such a program could be justifiably implemented. Finally, I describe and reject what I see as the flawed view of the relationship between parents and their children.

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Progress in Internal Medicine

Graybiel¹

1935

Arch Intern Med (Chic)

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Essential hypertension

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Chemical Regulation on Fire: Rapid Policy Advances on Flame Retardants

Chemical Regulation on Fire: Rapid Policy Advances on Flame Retardants

Licensing Parents Revisited

Progress in Internal Medicine

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