Around the world, asbestos-related diseases are on the increase. Meanwhile, in many newly-industrializing and developing countries, asbestos use continues unabated. This book, based on anthropological fieldwork in the UK, India and South Africa, explores people's understandings of their illness, risk, compensation and regulation, contrasting these personal and community narratives with formal medical and legal understandings.

Linda Waldman shows how the domination of medical and legal framings of risk and disease over those of workers, sufferers and activists can narrow the...

For Jinx, the smallest of nine beagles born in farmer Miller's barn, the first six weeks of life are filled with happiness and love. But when the puppies are taken away to find their "forever homes," Jinx determines that he will only be happy in a place exactly like the old barn. As Jinx searches for his perfect home, he encounters a series of misadventures including being stuffed into a cardboard box, locked in an old shack, and shut in a tiny cage at a puppy mill. Through it all, Jinx holds fast to his image of the perfect forever home until eventually he discovers that home and family come...