Lead Wars The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children

Name: Lead Wars The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children
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ISBN: 9780520283930

ISBN-10: 0520283937

ISBN-13: 9780520283930

Edition: 2013

Authors: Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner

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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 Appealswhich considered whether researchers at Johns Hopkins University’s prestigious Kennedy Krieger Institute (KKI) engaged in unethical research on 108 African-American childrenas a springboard to ask fundamental questions…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/15/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 326
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English