LEAD WARS by Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner ( 9780520283930 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

LEAD WARS
THE POLITICS OF SCIENCE AND THE FATE OF AMERICA'S CHILDREN

By:

Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0520283937

ISBN 13:

9780520283930

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Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Pub. date:

15 August, 2014

Series:

California/ Milbank Books on Health & the Public 24

Pages:

328

Description:

Focuses on one of the most contentious and bitter battles in the history of public health. This book 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.

Synopsis:

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.

Illustrations:

5 b/w photographs, 6 line illustrations, 1 map, 1 table

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University of California Press

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