Main Title |
Lead wars : the politics of science and the fate of America's children / |
Author |
Markowitz, Gerald E.
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Other Authors |
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Publisher |
University of California Press ; Milbank Memorial Fund, |
Year Published |
2013 |
OCLC Number |
814440843 |
ISBN |
9780520273252; 0520273257 |
Subjects |
Lead poisoning--United States--History ;
Lead poisoning in children--United States ;
Lead poisoning in children--Prevention--Government policy--United States ;
Blei ;
Gesundheitspolitik ;
Kind ;
Umweltbelastung ;
Vergiftung ;
USA ;
Lead Poisoning--history ;
Public Health--history ;
History, 20th Century ;
Environmental Exposure ;
Politics ;
Lead Poisoning--history--United States ;
Child--United States ;
Environmental Exposure--United States ;
History, 20th Century--United States ;
Politics--United States ;
Public Health--history--United States
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
EIAM |
RA1231.L4M365 2013 |
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Region 2 Library/New York,NY |
07/15/2013 |
EJAM |
RA1231.L4M365 2013 |
2 cys |
Region 3 Library/Philadelphia, PA |
05/27/2016 |
EOAM |
RA1231.L4M365 2013 |
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Region 8 Technical Library/Denver,CO |
09/30/2013 |
ERAM |
RA1231.L4M365 2013 |
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Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA |
04/28/2016 |
ESAM |
RA1231.L4M365 2013 |
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Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA |
07/29/2013 |
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Collation |
xxii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents Notes |
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. 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. |
Place Published |
Berkeley New York |
Corporate Au Added Ent |
Milbank Memorial Fund. |
Title Ser Add Ent |
California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 24. |
PUB Date Free Form |
©2013 |
Series Title Untraced |
California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 24 |
BIB Level |
m |
Medium |
unmediated |
Content |
text |
Carrier |
volume |
Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
LCCN |
2012042916 |
Merged OCLC records |
841483272; 845015331; 935936928 |
OCLC Time Stamp |
20160415200128 |
Language |
eng |
Origin |
OCLC |
Type |
CAT |
OCLC Rec Leader |
03903cam 2200745 a 45020 |