Lead wars : the politics of science and the fate of America's children / Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner.

  • Markowitz, Gerald E.
Date:
[2013], ©2013
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Publication/Creation

Berkeley ; London : University of California Press ; New York : Milbank Memorial Fund, [2013], ©2013.

Physical description

xxii, 298 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

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    History of Medicine
    MXD.6
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  • 9780520273252
  • 0520273257