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A portrait of two important black social scientists and a broader
history of race relations, this important work captures the
vitality and chaos of post-war politics in New York, recasting the
story of the civil rights movement.
Children, Race and Power is a highly acclaimed social history which examines how race and class affect child development. Winner of the American Public Health Association's Viseltear Award for outstanding work in the history of public health, this book is a portrait of two important black social scientists and a broader history of race relations. This important book captures the vitality and chaos of post-war politics in New York recasting the story of the civil rights movement.
"Deceit and Denial" details the attempts by the chemical and lead
industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly
products present to workers, the public, and consumers. Gerald
Markowitz and David Rosner pursued evidence steadily and
relentlessly, interviewed the important players, investigated
untapped sources, and uncovered a bruising story of cynical and
cruel disregard for health and human rights. This resulting expose
is full of startling revelations, provocative arguments, and
disturbing conclusions - all based on remarkable research and
information gleaned from secret industry documents. This book
reveals for the first time the public relations campaign that the
lead industry undertook to convince Americans to use its deadly
product to paint walls, toys, furniture, and other objects in
America's homes, despite a wealth of information that children were
at risk for serious brain damage and death from ingesting this
poison. This book highlights the immediate dangers ordinary
citizens face because of the relentless failure of industrial
polluters to warn, inform, and protect their workers and neighbors.
It offers a historical analysis of how corporate control over
scientific research has undermined the process of proving the links
between toxic chemicals and disease. The authors also describe the
wisdom, courage, and determination of workers and community members
who continue to voice their concerns in spite of vicious
opposition. Readable, ground-breaking, and revelatory, "Deceit and
Denial" provides crucial answers to questions of dangerous
environmental degradation, escalating corporate greed, and
governmental disregard for its citizens' safety and health. After
eleven years, Markowitz and Rosner update their work with a new
epilogue that outlines the attempts these industries have made to
undermine and create doubt about the accuracy of the information in
this book.
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.
This pathbreaking volume explores the history of occupational
safety and health in America from the late nineteenth century to
the 1950s. Thirteen essays tell a story of the exploitation of
workers as measured by shortened lives, high disease rates, and
painful injuries. Scholars from a variety of disciplines examine
the history of protection and compensation for injured workers,
state and federal involvement, controversies over the dangers of
lead, and the three emblematic industrial diseases of this century
radium poisoning, asbestos-related diseases, and brown lung."
A contemporary history of a critical period, "Are We Ready?
"analyzes the impact of 9/11, the anthrax attacks that followed,
and preparations for a possible smallpox attack on the nation's
public health infrastructure. David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz
interviewed local, state, and federal officials to determine the
immediate reactions of key participants in these events. The
authors explore the extent to which these emergencies permanently
altered the political, cultural, and organizational life of the
country and consider whether the nation is now better prepared to
withstand another potentially devastating attack. This
well-reasoned and well-researched book presents compelling evidence
that few with hands-on experience with disease and emergency
preparedness believe that an adequate response to
terrorismOCowhether biological, chemical, or radiologicalOCois
possible without a strong and vibrant infrastructure to provide
everyday services as well as emergency responses. "Are We Ready?"
begins with an examination of the experiences of local New York
officials who were the first responders to 9/11 and follows them as
events unfolded and as state and national authorities arrived. It
goes on to analyze how various states dealt with changing federal
funding for a variety of public health services. Using oral
histories of CDC and other federal officials, the book then focuses
on the federal reaction to 9/11 and anthrax. What emerges is a
picture of dedicated public servants who were overcome by the
emotions of the moment yet who were able to react in ways that
significantly reduced the public anxiety and public health threat.
Despite the extraordinary opportunity to revitalize and
reinvigorate the nationOCOs public health infrastructure, the
growing federal and state budget deficits, the refocusing of
national attention on the war in Iraq, and the passage of time all
combined to undermine many of the needed reforms to the nationOCOs
public health defenses."Copub: Milbank Memorial Fund""
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