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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 exposé is full of startling revelations, provocative arguments, and disturbing conclusions--all based on remarkable research and information gleaned from s
Factory and trade waste. --- Factory and trade waste - Environmental aspects. --- Vinyl Compounds --- Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated --- Hydrocarbons, Halogenated --- Hydrocarbons, Acyclic --- Vinyl Chloride --- Environmental health --- Environmental health. --- Pollution --- Chemical pollution --- Chemicals --- Contamination of environment --- Environmental pollution --- Contamination (Technology) --- Asbestos abatement --- Bioremediation --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental quality --- Factory and trade waste --- Hazardous waste site remediation --- Hazardous wastes --- In situ remediation --- Lead abatement --- Pollutants --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Health --- Health ecology --- Public health --- Health risk assessment --- Social aspects. --- Health aspects. --- Environmental aspects --- Health aspects --- Social aspects
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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 exposé 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.
Environmental health. --- Environmental health --- Factory and trade waste --- Pollution --- Chemical pollution --- Chemicals --- Contamination of environment --- Environmental pollution --- Contamination (Technology) --- Asbestos abatement --- Bioremediation --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental quality --- Hazardous waste site remediation --- Hazardous wastes --- In situ remediation --- Lead abatement --- Pollutants --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Health --- Health ecology --- Public health --- Health risk assessment --- Social aspects. --- Environmental aspects. --- Health aspects. --- Environmental aspects --- Health aspects --- Environmental Pollution --- Industry --- Disclosure. --- History, 20th Century. --- Lead Poisoning. --- Vinyl Chloride --- history. --- ethics. --- adverse effects. --- History, 20th Century --- history --- american workers. --- chemical industry. --- conspiracy. --- corporate control. --- deadly products. --- disease. --- ecology. --- engaging. --- environment. --- environmental hazard. --- environmental health. --- environmental history. --- environmental pollution. --- environmental. --- global warming. --- health care issues. --- historical. --- immediate dangers. --- industrial polluters. --- lead industry. --- manufacturing industry. --- pharmocology. --- political. --- politics. --- public health. --- science and math. --- sociological. --- sustainability. --- technology. --- toxic chemicals. --- toxicology.
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During the Depression, silicosis, an industrial lung disease, emerged as a national social crisis. Experts estimated that hundreds of thousands of workers were at risk of disease, disability, and death by inhaling silica in mines, foundries, and quarries. By the 1950s, however, silicosis was nearly forgotten by the media and health professionals. Asking what makes a health threat a public issue, David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz examine how a culture defines disease and how disease itself is understood at different moments in history. They also explore the interlocking relationships of public health, labor, business, and government to discuss who should assume responsibility for occupational disease.
Silicosis --- Occupational diseases --- Occupational diseases
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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-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.
Lead poisoning --- Lead poisoning in children --- Childhood lead poisoning --- Pediatric toxicology --- Lead intoxication --- Plumbism --- Saturnism --- Lead --- Poisoning --- History. --- Prevention --- Government policy --- Toxicology --- 20th century. --- america. --- american children. --- chronic illness. --- environmental sciences. --- epidemiology. --- experiments. --- health and wellness. --- health policies. --- historical. --- human condition. --- lead poisoning. --- legal conflicts. --- nonfiction. --- poisoning epidemic. --- political. --- politics of science. --- public health agencies. --- public health workers. --- public health. --- reagan administration. --- retrospective. --- social historians. --- toxic exposure. --- unethical research. --- us history.
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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 terrorism-whether biological, chemical, or radiological-is 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 nation's 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 nation's public health defenses.Copub: Milbank Memorial Fund
Medical policy --- Emergency medical services --- Emergency management --- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- Health aspects
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