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Deceit and denial : the deadly politics of industrial pollution.
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ISBN: 9780520240636 0520240634 0520217497 0520930754 9786612357350 1282357352 1597345768 9780520930759 9780520217492 0520235320 9780520235328 9781282357358 6612357355 9781597345767 Year: 2002 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press

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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

Dying for work: workers' safety and health in twentieth-century America
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ISBN: 0253318254 Year: 1987 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana University Press

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Slaves of the depression: worker's letters about life on the job
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ISBN: 0801494648 Year: 1987 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Cornell University Press

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Deadly dust : silicosis and the politics of occupational disease in twentieth-century America
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ISBN: 0691047588 Year: 1991 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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Deceit and denial : the deadly politics of industrial pollution
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ISBN: 0520954963 9780520954960 9780520275829 0520275829 Year: 2013 Volume: 6 Publisher: Berkeley, CA ; London : University of California Press,

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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.

Deadly dust : silicosis and the on-going struggle to protect worker's health
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ISBN: 0472031104 9780472031108 Year: 2006 Publisher: Ann Arbor: University of Michigan press,

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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.


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World civilizations: sources, images, and interpretations
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Year: 1998 Publisher: Boston, Mass. McGraw-Hill

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Lead wars : the politics of science and the fate of America's children
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ISBN: 0520954955 9780520954953 1299192394 9781299192393 9780520273252 0520273257 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berkeley : New York : University of California Press ; Milbank Memorial Fund,

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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.

World civilizations: sources, images, and interpretations
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ISBN: 0070578133 0070578141 Year: 1998 Publisher: Boston (mass.) McGraw-Hill

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Are we ready? : public health since 9/11
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ISBN: 1282360167 9786612360169 0520940474 9780520940475 9781282360167 0520249208 0520250389 9780520249202 9780520250383 661236016X Year: 2006 Publisher: Berkeley : New York : University of California Press ; Milbank Memorial Fund,

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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

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