A Hazardous Inquiry: The Rashomon Effect at Love Canal

Preface Abbreviations Background 1. Rashomon 2. Love's Canal Accounts 3. Hooker's Account 4. The School Board's Account 5. Digression: Growing Concern about Trace Poisons 6. Ring 1's Account (May to August 1978) 7. Lois Gibbs's Account (June 1978 to May 1980) 8. The Health Department's Account 9. Michael Brown's Account Analysis 10. News Coverage 11. Who Pays? 12. The Scientific Controversy 13. Reconciling Accounts Postscript Chronology The Basics of Toxicology References Index