Lead wars : the politics of science and the fate of America's children / Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner.
by
Markowitz, Gerald E., author.
ISBN
:
9780520954953
9781299192393
Title
:
Lead wars : the politics of science and the fate of America's children / Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner.
Author
:
Markowitz, Gerald E., author.
Personal Author
:
Markowitz, Gerald E., author.
Physical Description
:
1 online resource (xxii, 298 pages) : illustrations.
Series
:
California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 24
Contents
:
Foreword / Carmen Hooker Odom, Samuel L. Milbank -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction : a legacy of neglect -- 2. From personal tragedy to public health crisis -- 3. Peeling the onion : new layers of the lead problem -- 4. The contentious meaning of low-level exposures -- 5. The rise of public health pragmatism -- 6. Controlled poison -- 7. Research on trial -- 8. Lead poisoning and the courts -- 9. A plague on all our houses -- Notes -- Index.
Local Note
:
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Subject Term
:
Lead poisoning -- United States -- History.
Lead poisoning in children -- United States.
Lead poisoning in children -- Prevention -- Government policy -- United States.
Lead Poisoning -- history.
Child.
Environmental Exposure.
History, 20th Century.
Politics.
Public Health -- history.
Geographic Term
:
United States.
Added Author
:
Rosner, David, 1947-
Added Corporate Author
:
Milbank Memorial Fund,
Format
:
Electronic Resources
Electronic Access
:
Publication Date
:
2013
Publication Information
:
Berkeley :
University of California Press ;
New York :
Milbank Memorial Fund,
[2013]
©2013
| Shelf Number | Material Type | Copy | Shelf Location | Status |
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| 363.738492 | 1:E-BOOK | 1 | 1:ONLINE | Available for online access and/or download |