Lead Wars
The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children
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Erschienen am 30. April 2013
326 Seiten
978-0-520-95495-3 (ISBN)
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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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Gerald Markowitz is Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is, along with David Rosner, coauthor of Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution (UC Press), and eight other books.
David Rosner is Ronald Lauterstein Professor of Public Health and Professor of History at Columbia University and Co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health. In 2010 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
David Rosner is Ronald Lauterstein Professor of Public Health and Professor of History at Columbia University and Co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health. In 2010 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
Inhalt
Foreword
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
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
