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Environmentally Induced Cancer and the Law: Risks, Regulation, and Victim Compensation
Environmentally Induced Cancer and the Law Risks Regulation and Victim Compensation Author:Frank B. Cross Cross provides a comprehensive treatment of the widely feared problem of environmentally induced cancer. The author takes a threefold approach to the problem, first examining the cancers themselves and what is known about their causes and then exploring both the government's regulation of these environmental pollutants and the legal remedies ava... more »ilable to victims of such cancers. Throughout, new proposals for regulating carcinogens and compensating the victims of environmental cancer are discussed. The final chapters explore legal obstacles to victim compensation and argue for fundamental changes in existing common law doctrines to enhance the ability of victim/plaintiffs to recover adequate damages.« less