Gerald Markowitz

Lead Wars

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

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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-… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Rosner, David

ISBN: 978-0-520-95495-3
EAN: 9780520954953
Produktnummer: 21596223
Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 326 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'397 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Reihenbandnummer: 24

Über den Autor

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.