The Fluoride Wars - How a Modest Public Health Measure Became Americas Longest-Running Political Melodrama
Published on 28. October 2008
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400 pages
978-0-470-46371-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Flouride Wars offers a witty retelling of a highly debated scientific conflict in our past. It contains a variety of anecdotes regarding the history of tooth decay and the start of the use of fluoride, as well as the beginning of water fluoridation in the Unites States. This reader-friendly assessment of the best current thinking effectively portrays the mechanisms by which fluoride reduces tooth decay, its effectiveness and safety, and the credibility of the health-risk claims of the anti-fluoride movement.
Reviews / Votes
"The authors have put an enormous effort into acquiring the data in this book and... it is a very interesting and stimulating read." ( Chromatographia, June 2010) "The authors should be commended for providing all of the facts of the controversy in one place. Their call for both sides to get together to study the health issues with reason and respect is also a worthwhile goal because, as they point out; perhaps then 'this long-standing and somewhat silly dispute could finally he laid to rest.'" ( Chemical and Engineering News, September 2009)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
666 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-46371-0 (9780470463710)
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R. Allan Freeze | Jay H. Lehr
The Fluoride Wars
How a Modest Public Health Measure Became America's Longest Running Political Melodrama
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05/2009
Wiley
€48.99
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Persons
R. Allan Freeze is one of North America's leading researchers in the field of environmental water quality, and has acted as the consulting engineer on drinking water quality at a number of sites across North America. He was a member of the University of British Columbia's engineering faculty in Vancouver for twenty years and is the author of over 150 technical articles and the coauthor of several books. Jay H. Lehr is Senior Scientist with The Heartland Institute and Chief Scientist for EarthWater Global, an international water supply company. A graduate of Princeton University, he developed the first PhD program in hydrology at the University of Arizona and was on the faculty at The Ohio State University. Lehr has authored or coauthored over twenty books, hundreds of journal and magazine articles, and is an internationally renowned expert who speaks worldwide on environmental topics.
Content
CHAPTER 1: A STORY OF OUR TIMES. Grand Rapids, Michigan, Four O'Clock Eastern Wartime. The Longest-Running Circus in Town. Pro or Con? CHAPTER 2: A CLASH OF ABSOLUTES. Dueling Websites. Quack, Quack. The $100,000 Cash Offer. As One Voice. Who Drinks Fluoridated Water and Who Doesn't. Fear and Loathing. Fluoridation Facts, Dr. Y, and the Lifesavers Guide. What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate. CHAPTER 3: A TALE OF TWO CITIES. Spokane, Washington. Cumberland, Maryland. Fluoridation, 2000. The Push for Statewide Mandates. On the Phone and in the Booth. The Early Studies: Social Dynamics and Pop Psychology. The Later Studies: Just Plain Politics. Spokane and Cumberland: Reprise. CHAPTER 4: TWO WOMEN. Darlene Sherrell: The Canary in the Mine. Jackie Speier and the Legacy of Jonestown. The California Mandate. San Diego, Escondido and the Golden Fleece. CHAPTER 5: THE ROAD TO FLUORIDATION. Beautiful Women and Black Teeth. Frederick McKay and the Mystery of Colorado Stain. H. Trendley Dean and the Towns without Toothaches. Lathered Up to Go. Little Girls in Gingham Dresses. Fluoride on Trial. Blind Examiners and Confounding Factors. The Mavericks Emerge. CHAPTER 6: FLUOROPHOBIA. Satan's Metal. ALCOAnoia. Toxic Coup? The Donora Death Fog. Project F. The Far Side. Let There Be Light: An Assessment of Anti-Fluoridation Conspiracy Claims. The Perils of Obsession. CHAPTER 7: LOOK, MA. NO CAVITIES: FLUORIDE AND TEETH. Teeth. The People's Disease. Reversal of Misfortune. The Fluoride Cycle: From Apatite to Apatite. How Fluoride Works. More Studies and Diminishing Returns. The Halo Effect. Flossers and Cheeseheads. The Back of the Coin: The Observed Increase in Dental Fluorosis. The Bottom Line on Fluoride and Teeth. CHAPTER 8: FLUORIDE AND HEALTH. Exposure, Intake, and Dose. The Roots of Contention. Acute Fluoride Poisoning. Kaj Roholm's Legacy. The Tragedy of Crippling Skeletal Fluorosis. Fluoride as Medicine: The Osteoporosis Experiments. Bone Health and Hip Fractures: Legitimate Questions and Equivocal Answers. The Special Case of Kidney Dialysis. Allergic Reactions and Psychological Distress. Affairs of the Heart. Fluoride and Genetics. Fluoride, Cancer, and Credibility. The Osteosarcoma Controversy. Alzheimers, Intelligence, Crime, and Addiction. CHAPTER 9: EPA AND THE MCLs. Fluoride as Jekyl and Hyde. Brinksmanship. Amicus Curiae. The Marcus Affair. A Question of Allegiance. A Question of Motive. CHAPTER 10: RIDING THE TIGER: THE DOSAGE ISSUE. The Concept of a Maximum Acceptable Daily Dose. Fluoride Intake in Our Diet. Do Not Swallow. Contesting Conventional Wisdom. Too Much of a Good Thing? CHAPTER 11: SCIENCE AND NOT SCIENCE. Junk Science: Values and Bias in Scientific Research. Single-minded Science: The ISFR and the Journal Fluoride. The Shunning of Phyllis Mullinex. John Colquhoun Falls Off the Wagon. Science, Funding, and Self-Interest. Fluoridation in the Courts: The Anti-fluoridationists' Last Stand. The Congressional Pulpit. CHAPTER 12: MONEY, MOTIVE, AND RISK. The Uneasy Science of Risk-Cost-Benefit Analysis. The Cost of Fluoridation. The Wrangle Over Benefits. The Ultimate Battleground. Engineered Systems and Human Error. The Concept of Acceptable Risk. The Precursors. Public Health or Home Remedy? The Bottom Line on the Economics of Fluoridation. CHAPTER 13: THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL. Teeth. Health Risk. Dosage. Credibility. The Need for Civil Discourse.