عنوان

Lead wars :

(Number (ISBN

0520273257 (cloth : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780520273252 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Title Proper

Lead wars :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the politics of science and the fate of America's children /

First Statement of Responsibility

Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Milbank Memorial Fund,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2013

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxii, 298 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

California/Milbank books on health and the public ;

Volume Designation

24

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

From personal tragedy to public health crisis -- Peeling the onion : new layers of the lead problem -- The contentious meaning of low-level exposures -- The rise of public health pragmatism -- Controlled poison -- Research on trial -- Lead poisoning and the courts -- A plague on all our houses

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In this incisive examination of lead poisoning during the past half century, Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner focus on one of the most contentious and bitter battles in the history of public health. Lead Wars details how the nature of the epidemic has changed and highlights the dilemmas public health agencies face today in terms of prevention strategies and chronic illness linked to low levels of toxic exposure. The authors use the opinion by Maryland's Court of Appeals--which considered whether researchers at Johns Hopkins University's prestigious Kennedy Krieger Institute (KKI) engaged in unethical research on 108 African-American children--as a springboard to ask fundamental questions about the practice and future of public health. Lead Wars chronicles the obstacles faced by public health workers in the conservative, pro-business, anti-regulatory climate that took off in the Reagan years and that stymied efforts to eliminate lead from the environments and the bodies of American children

Lead poisoning in children-- Prevention-- Government policy-- United States

Lead poisoning in children-- United States

Lead poisoning-- United States-- History

Child-- United States

Environmental Exposure-- United States

History, 20th Century-- United States

Lead Poisoning-- history-- United States

Politics-- United States

Public Health-- history-- United States

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Markowitz, Gerald E

Rosner, David,1947-

Milbank Memorial Fund

Date of Transaction

20131004090916.0

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[Book]

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