Author: Sarah E. RoycePublisher:
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Category : Lead
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Lead Toxicity
Author: Sarah E. RoyceMeasuring Lead Exposure in Infants, Children, and Other Sensitive Populations
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030904927X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Lead is a ubiquitous toxic agent that is especially damaging to the young child and the developing fetus. Unlike many environmental health risks, the risks associated with lead are no longer theoretical but have been observed for many years. Indeed, the first regulation of lead in paint was enacted in the 1920s. Currently, because of growing evidence of lead toxicity at lower concentrations, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently lowered its lead-exposure guideline to 10 ug/dl lead in blood from 25 ug/dl. Measuring Lead Exposure in Infants, Children, and Other Sensitive Populations addresses the public health concern about the logistics and feasibility of lead screening in infants and children at such low concentrations. This book will serve as the basis for all U.S. Public Health Service activities and for all state and local programs in monitoring lead.
Brush with Death
Author: Christian WarrenPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801868207
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Winner of the Arthur Viseltear Award for Outstanding Book in the History of Public Health from the American Public Health AssociationSelected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title During the twentieth century, lead poisoning killed thousands of workers and children in the United States. Thousands who survived lead poisoning were left physically crippled or were robbed of mental faculties and years of life. In Brush with Death, social historian Christian Warren offers the first comprehensive history of lead poisoning in the United States. Focusing on lead paint and leaded gasoline, Warren distinguishes three primary modes of exposure—occupational, pediatric, and environmental. This threefold perspective permits a nuanced exploration of the regulatory mechanisms, medical technologies, and epidemiological tools that arose in response to lead poisoning. Today, many children undergo aggressive "deleading" treatments when their blood-lead levels are well below the average blood-lead levels found in urban children in the 1950s. Warren links the repeated redefinition of lead poisoning to changing attitudes toward health, safety, and risk. The same changes that transformed the social construction of lead poisoning also transformed medicine and health care, giving rise to modern environmentalism and fundamentally altered jurisprudence.
Lead Poisoning in Childhood
Author: Siegfried M. PueschelPublisher: Brookes Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This resource examines the causes and consequences of childhood lead poisoning, offers cost-effective prevention strategies, and explores crucial legislation that can and should protect children at risk. Information on screening tests, nutrition, treatment guidelines, and safe environmental abatement techniques will help pediatricians, physicians, social workers, and nurses understand, treat, and eliminate lead poisoning in children.
Lead Paint Safety : A Field Guide for Painting, Home Maintenance, and Renovation Work.
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428985182
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Preventing Lead Poisoning in Young Children
Author: Centers for Disease Control (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Accidental poisoning, in children
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Recommendations for the Prevention of Lead Poisoning in Children
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on ToxicologyPublisher: National Academies
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Lead Wars
Author: Gerald MarkowitzPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520283937
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
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.
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