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Communicable diseases, drug therapy --- Developing countries --- Drug industry --- Medical cooperation --- Pharmaceutical services --- Public policy, united states --- Pharmacology --- Technology --- Developing countries. --- Therapeutics. --- Pharmaceutical

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""Doubt is our product,"" a cigarette executive once observed, ""since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy."" In this eye-opening expose, David Michaels reveals how the tobacco industry's duplicitous tactics spawned a multimillion dollar industry that is dismantling public health safeguards. Product defense consultants, he argues, have increasingly skewed the scientific literature, manufactured and magnified scientific uncertainty, and influenced policy decisions to the adva

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The book presents a detailed assessment of the health science of lead and the human health risk assessment models for lead's human health impacts, followed by an account of various regulatory efforts in the United States and elsewhere to eliminate or reduce human toxic exposures to lead. The science of lead as presented here covers releases of lead into the environment, lead's movement through the environment to reach humans who are then exposed, and the spectrum of toxic effects, particularly low-level toxic effects, on the developing central nervous system of the very young child. The sectio

Environmental Exposure. --- Lead - Environmental aspects. --- Lead -- Environmental aspects. --- Lead - Law and legislation. --- Lead - toxicity. --- Lead - Toxicology. --- Lead -- Toxicology. --- Lead poisoning in children -- Risk factors. --- Lead Poisoning. --- Public Policy -- Great Britain. --- Public Policy -- United States. --- Risk Assessment. --- Lead --- Metals, Heavy --- Environmental Pollution --- Risk --- Risk Management --- Epidemiologic Measurements --- Public Health --- Probability --- Elements --- Metals --- Organization and Administration --- Health Services Administration --- Statistics as Topic --- Inorganic Chemicals --- Environment and Public Health --- Health Care --- Chemicals and Drugs --- Epidemiologic Methods --- Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms --- Quality of Health Care --- Investigative Techniques --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Risk Assessment --- Environmental Exposure --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Toxicology & Public Health --- Toxicology --- Environmental aspects --- Law and legislation --- Toxicology. --- Environmental aspects.