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Lead wars : the politics of science and the fate of America's children
Author
Title
Lead wars : the politics of science and the fate of America's children / Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner.
ISBN
9780520273252 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520273257 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press ; New York : Milbank Memorial Fund, c2013.
Physical Description
xxii, 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 30, 2013
Series
California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 24
Bibliography
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.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Child - United States.
Environmental Exposure - United States.
History, 20th Century - United States.
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Milbank Memorial Fund.
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