Dan Fagin is an associate professor of journalism and the director of the Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. For fifteen years, he was the environmental writer at Newsday, where he was twice a principal member of reporting teams that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. His articles on cancer epidemiology were recognized with the Science Journalism Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Science in Society Award of the National Association of Science Writers.
The riveting true story of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution, Toms River melds hard-hitting investigative reporting, a fascinating scientific detective story, and an unforgettable cast of characters into a sweeping narrative in the tradition of A Civil Action, The Emperor of All Maladies, and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
One of New Jersey’s seemingly innumerable quiet seaside towns, Toms River became the unlikely setting for a decades-long drama that culminated in 2001 with one of the largest legal settlements in the annals of toxic dumping. A town that would rather have been known for its Little League World Series champions ended up making history for an entirely different reason: a notorious cluster of childhood cancers scientifically linked to local air and water pollution. For years, large chemical companies had been using Toms River as their private dumping ground, burying tens of thousands of leaky drums in open pits and discharging billions of gallons of acid-laced wastewater into the town’s namesake river.
In an astonishing feat of investigative reporting, prize-winning journalist Dan Fagin recounts the sixty-year saga of rampant pollution and inadequate oversight that made Toms River a cautionary example for fast-growing industrial towns from South Jersey to South China. He tells the stories of the pioneering scientists and physicians who first identified pollutants as a cause of cancer, and brings to life the everyday heroes in Toms River who struggled for justice: a young boy whose cherubic smile belied the fast-growing tumors that had decimated his body from birth; a nurse who fought to bring the alarming incidence of childhood cancers to the attention of authorities who didn’t want to listen; and a mother whose love for her stricken child transformed her into a tenacious advocate for change.
A gripping human drama rooted in a centuries-old scientific quest, Toms River is a tale of dumpers at midnight and deceptions in broad daylight, of corporate avarice and government neglect, and of a few brave individuals who refused to keep silent until the truth was exposed.
1. 读前我也很是怀疑,一个很简单的事实——化工厂污染地下水导致居民癌症这么简单的事情是如何写出500页的书也是如何获得普利策奖的。读后不得不感叹,这个事情远没有想象中那么简单。无论是污染的发生,还是癌症真相的揭露,就像锁链一样有万千个环节共同作用而成的。对于污...
评分文章来源:http://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1354831) 澎湃新闻记者 徐明徽 2015-07-21 18:20 来自 文化课 字号 美国纽约大学新闻系副教授、环境记者丹•费金历时7年,将位于美国新泽西州的“癌症村”汤姆斯河镇的案例写成纪实作品《汤姆斯河:科学与救赎的故事...
评分令人震撼的一本环保佳作,可与《寂静的春天》、《众病之王》相媲美的“科学写作新经典”。是一本可从多个视角加以解读的著作,尤其书末提及中国案例,值得研读!究竟如何处理经济发展与环境治理的难题,值得深思!作者十多年的追踪调查,力图还原事实真相的科研精神,值得...
评分令人震撼的一本环保佳作,可与《寂静的春天》、《众病之王》相媲美的“科学写作新经典”。是一本可从多个视角加以解读的著作,尤其书末提及中国案例,值得研读!究竟如何处理经济发展与环境治理的难题,值得深思!作者十多年的追踪调查,力图还原事实真相的科研精神,值得...
评分《汤姆斯河》:从美国到第三世界 http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_744a73490102vxnb.html 唐世平(复旦大学特聘教授,陈树渠讲席教授) 王雯(天津理工大学,《汤姆斯河》中文版译者) 一个默默无闻的贫瘠小镇,因为一家大型化工厂的到来而彻底改变了它的命运。化工厂入...
国外上个世纪甚至上上个世纪经济发展带来的负面影响与代价正在当代中国进行,而他们则早已进行了转型,往高科技与尖端制造业发展,利用资本手段将重污染行业转移到发展中国家或者第三世界国家!
评分好長的一條路,對很多地方來講,遠未見盡頭。
评分国外上个世纪甚至上上个世纪经济发展带来的负面影响与代价正在当代中国进行,而他们则早已进行了转型,往高科技与尖端制造业发展,利用资本手段将重污染行业转移到发展中国家或者第三世界国家!
评分国外上个世纪甚至上上个世纪经济发展带来的负面影响与代价正在当代中国进行,而他们则早已进行了转型,往高科技与尖端制造业发展,利用资本手段将重污染行业转移到发展中国家或者第三世界国家!
评分其实,我觉得这个讲良心实在的伟大普通人和现代activism多于讲流行病学分析,写后者写得让人手不释卷的推荐The Emperor of All Maladies。个人来讲我想读更多关于分析每户水源构成的追溯模型如何构建,但普利策显然更喜欢从个体和家人角度讲的故事。故事铺叙老套但扎实,不是裹了糖霜撒了彩带的欢喜结尾,而是现实,生活如此。
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