The health of America’s children continues to be jeopardized by chemicals, poisons, and
other threats in their environment. For more than a century, lead has been at the top of that list; …

Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America’s Children is the definitive history
of childhood lead poisoning in the United States. In it, historians Gerald Markowitz and …

AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW FEBRUARY 2016 ago and few if any children die today
from acute lead poisoning. Yet, as the authors argue throughout the book, that victory is only …

‘Lead poisoning’, writes the World Health Organization (WHO),‘has been a scourge to human
health for millennia’. 1 Lead poisoning, says the WHO, is entirely preventable and one of …

Despite mounting scientific evidence that the presence of lead in the built environment
remains dangerous to young children, Markowitz and Rosner note the difficulty of rallying the …

… Lead wars: the politics of science and the fate of America's children, by Gerald Markowitz
and David Rosner. California/Milbank Memorial Fund, 2013. 298p bibl index afp (California/ …

Humans have had a long and complicated relationship with lead, a toxic heavy metal that
has been used as an ingredient in a wide variety of applications for over 7,000 years, from …

BHR_88_4_BookReviews 799..851 Page 1 relations. In Wells’s telling, however, American
automobility was a fairly consensual process that unfolded without any genuinely …

The prolific team of Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner has done it again. Lead Wars: The
Politics of Science and the Fate of America’s Children is a thoroughly researched, passionate…