Disadvantaged Child: Studies of the Social Environment and the Learning Process - Hardcover

Deutsch, Martin; Etc.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0465016642 ISBN 13: 9780465016648

Publisher: Basic Books, 1992

Synopsis

A dissection of the Soviet Union's legacy of health and environmental disaster, this book examines a former country of 103 cities - home to 70 million people - where the air is unfit to breathe and pollution fouls 75 percent of the water.

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Synopsis:

Hospitals perform appendectomies not with scalpels, which are in short supply, but with shaving razor blades...70,000,000 people (nearly a third of the population) live in places where the Soviet-defined maximum pollution concentration is exceeded by at least five times...DDT, despite being banned in the USSR since 1972, is used on sixteen percent of agricultural land...The facts, long hidden by official secrecy, are at last emerging, and they tell a grim tale of a failed medical system and pollution so pervasive that cities are poisoned, land left unfit for agriculture, and Soviet people too weakened to meet the industrial and military needs of the nation. Murray Feshbach, the world's foremost authority on Soviet society, and journalist Alfred Friendly, Jr., supply the first authoritative measure of the costs of this crisis and an assessment of its political consequences. To repair the damage already done will take decades and massive investments of funds and technology. But the consequences of ignoring this lethal neglect and abuse - for the Soviets and for all citizens of the planet - are dire, Feshbach and Friendly warn.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0465016642
• ISBN 13: 9780465016648
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400