Lead wars
the politics of science and the fate of America's children
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Author
Contributions
- Rosner, David, 1947- - Contributor
- Milbank Memorial Fund - Contributor
Publication
2013 - University of California Press, Berkeley, California
Language
English
Word Count
74,500 words, Guess
Page Count
298 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27148616M
- ISBN-139780520273252
- ISBN-100520273257
- OCLC Control Number814440843
- OCLC Control Numberleadwarspolitics0000mark_f3d6
and 1 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2012042916
Classifications
- DDC363.738/492
- LCCRA1231.L4 M365 2013
Description
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.
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Series Statement
- California/Milbank books on health and the public -- 24
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