Lead Wars

Lead Wars
Author: Gerald Markowitz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2014-08-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520283937

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.

Reviews in Environmental Health (1998)

Reviews in Environmental Health (1998)
Author: Gary E. R. Hook
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2000-02
Genre:
ISBN: 0788185330

The "man who invented the future," Verne created the prototype for modern science fiction. His prophetic 1870 adventure novel, featuring a bizarre underwater craft commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, predated the submarine. The crowning achievement of Verne's literary career, the book influenced H. G. Wells and later generations of writers.

Haunted Housing

Haunted Housing
Author: Cassandra Chrones Moore
Publisher: Cato Institute
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781882577422

Moore argues that we need to apply risk/benefit analysis to the exaggerated claims being made today.

Lead in Paint, Soil, and Dust

Lead in Paint, Soil, and Dust
Author: Michael E. Beard
Publisher: ASTM International
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1995
Genre: Chemical elements
ISBN: 0803118848

From a July 1993 conference in Boulder, Colorado, 28 papers review the latest results in research on monitoring and controlling environmental exposures to lead in paint, soil, and dust. They provide a multidisciplinary overview of research programs, the status of analytical methods, and certificatio