Lead wars [electronic resource] : the politics of science and the fate of America's children

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서명/저자사항	Lead wars [electronic resource]: the politics of science and the fate of America's children / Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner.
개인저자	Markowitz, Gerald E., author. Rosner, David, 1947, author.
단체저자명	Milbank Memorial Fund,publisher.
발행사항	Berkeley: University of California Press, [2013].
형태사항	1 online resource (xxii, 298 pages) : illustrations.
총서사항	California/Milbank books on health and the public ;24
기타형태 저록	Print version: Markowitz, Gerald E. Lead wars. Berkeley : University of California Press ; New York : Milbank Memorial Fund, c2013 9780520273252
ISBN	9780520954953 (electronic book) 0520954955 (electronic book) 1299192394 (ebk) 9781299192393 (ebk)
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	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.
요약	"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"--Provided by publisher.
일반주제명	Lead poisoning --United States --History. Lead poisoning in children --United States. Lead poisoning in children --Prevention --Government policy --United States. Lead Poisoning --history --United States. Child --United States. Environmental Exposure --United States. History, 20th Century --United States. Politics --United States. Public Health --history --United States. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING --Environmental --Pollution Control. MEDICAL / Health Policy.
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