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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