| Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children Volume 24 Contributor(s): Markowitz, Gerald (Author), Rosner, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520283937 ISBN-13: 9780520283930 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Health Policy - Medical | Diseases - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: 363.738 |
| LCCN: 2012042916 |
| Series: California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.98" W x 9.12" (0.97 lbs) 326 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |