Description: Lead Wars : The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children, Paperback by Markowitz, Gerald; Rosner, David, ISBN 0520283937, ISBN-13 9780520283930, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Lead Wars : The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Chi
Number of Pages: 326 Pages
Publication Name: Lead Wars : the Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Public Health, Toxicology, Children's Studies, United States / 20th Century, American Government / General, Health Policy, United States / General, Diseases
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Author: Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, History, Medical
Item Length: 9 in
Series: California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
