Hassan, M. Manzurul; Atkins, Peter J.; Dunn, Christine E. - In: Social Science & Medicine 61 (2005) 10, pp. 2201-2211
Besides its toxicity, groundwater arsenic contamination creates widespread social problems for its victims and their families in Bangladesh. There is, for instance, a tendency to ostracise arsenic-affected people, arsenicosis being thought of as a contagious disease. Within the community,...