Book ID: CBB001451145

Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children (2013)

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Markowitz, Gerald E. (Author)
Rosner, David K. (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xxii + 298 pp.; ill.
Language: English

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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Authors & Contributors
Mendes, Gabriel N.
Hatch, Anthony Ryan
Varel, David Alan
Porter, Jim Wynter
Sano, Yulonda Eadie
Epstein, Jessica
Concepts
Science and politics
Science and law
Public health
African Americans and science
African Americans
Lead poisoning
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
Places
United States
Mississippi (U.S.)
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Germany
Canada
Institutions
Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic
National Defense Education Act (NDEA)
United States. Supreme Court
United States. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA)
Human Genome Project
American Medical Association
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