Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children Volume 24

In this incisive examination of lead poisoning during the past half century, Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner...
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Author: Gerald Markowitz
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Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children Volume 24 by Markowitz, Gerald

Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children Volume 24

¥11,187

Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children Volume 24

¥11,187
Author: Gerald Markowitz
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 08/15/2014
Pages: 326
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.12h x 5.98w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780520283930

About the Author
Gerald Markowitz is Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is, along with David Rosner, coauthor of Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution (UC Press), and eight other books.

David Rosner is Ronald Lauterstein Professor of Public Health and Professor of History at Columbia University and Co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health. In 2010 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

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