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... Bendectin, Agent Orange, Love Canal, Three Mile Island, the Dalkon Shield, and the pertussis vaccine have all figured in the training. The transformation, in a nutshell, has consisted of shifting the focus of American tort law from "private" risks to "public" ones.
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  • public ones


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