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9780801868207

Brush With Death: A Social History of Lead Poisoning

by Warren, Christian
  • ISBN13:

    9780801868207

  • ISBN10:

    0801868203

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-07-01
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Christian Warren is the Academy Historian at the New York Academy of Medicine.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction What's Lead in the Bone... 1(12)
Plumbing the Depths
13(14)
Childhood Lead Poisoning before 1930
27(17)
Toxic Purity: How the United States Became a Nation of White-Leaders
44(20)
Occupational Lead Poisoning in the Progressive Era
64(20)
Protecting Workers and Profits in the Lead Industries
84(17)
Company Doctors on the Job
101(15)
Introducing Leaded Gasoline
116(18)
Defining Childhood Lead Poisoning as a Disease of Poverty
134(18)
Urban Physicians Discover the Silent Epidemic
152(26)
The Screaming Epidemic
178(25)
Facing the Consequences of Leaded Gasoline
203(21)
The Rise and Fall of Universal Childhood Lead Screening
224(20)
Regulating ``Low-Level'' Lead Poisoning
244(15)
Appendix Reports on Lead Poisoning 259(4)
Notes 263(86)
Index 349

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