Description: Further DetailsTitle: Lead WarsCondition: NewSubtitle: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's ChildrenISBN-10: 0520283937EAN: 9780520283930ISBN: 9780520283930Publisher: University of California PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/15/2014Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 18mmItem Weight: 454gAuthor: David Rosner, Gerald MarkowitzGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, MedicineBook Series: California/Milbank Books on Health and the PublicRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Lead Wars
Title: Lead Wars
Subtitle: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children
ISBN-10: 0520283937
EAN: 9780520283930
ISBN: 9780520283930
Release Date: 08/15/2014
Release Year: 2014
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Medicine
Number of Pages: 326 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Lead Wars : the Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Public Health, Toxicology, Children's Studies, United States / 20th Century, American Government / General, Health Policy, United States / General, Diseases
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2014
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, History, Medical
Author: Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner
Item Width: 6 in
Series: California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
