| Main Title |
Brush with death : a social history of lead poisoning / |
| Author |
Warren, Christian.
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| Publisher |
Johns Hopkins University Press, |
| Year Published |
2000 |
| OCLC Number |
42393544 |
| ISBN |
0801862892 (alk. paper); 9780801862892 (alk. paper); 0801868203; 9780801868207 |
| Subjects |
Lead poisoning--United States--History ;
Lead Poisoning--history--United States ;
Public Policy--United States ;
Sociology, Medical--United States ;
Lood ;
Vergiftiging ;
Sociale aspecten ;
Envenenamento--Estados unidos
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| Holdings |
| Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
Modified |
Checkout
Status |
| EIAM |
RA1231.L4W37 2000 |
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Region 2 Library/New York,NY |
01/18/2010 |
| ERAM |
RA1231.L4W37 2000 |
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Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA |
09/21/2001 |
| ESAM |
RA1231.L4W37 2000 |
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Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA |
01/13/2001 |
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| Collation |
xiv, 362 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-348) and index. |
| Contents Notes |
Introduction : What's lead in the bone... -- 1. Plumbing the depths -- 2. Childhood lead poisoning before 1930 -- 3. Toxic purity : how the United States became a nation of white-leaders -- 4. Occupational lead poisoning in the progressive era -- 5. Protecting workers and profits in the lead industries -- 6. Company doctors on the job -- 7. Introducing leaded gasoline -- 8. Defining childhood lead poisoning as a disease of poverty -- 9. Urban physicians discover the silent epidemic -- 10. The screaming epidemic -- 11. Facing the consequences of leaded gasoline -- 12. The rise and fall of universal childhood lead screening -- 13. Regulating "low-level" lead poisoning -- Appendix: Reports on lead poisoning |
