Deceit and Denial

The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution

Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

428 Seiten

2002
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-21749-2 (ISBN)

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An account of 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 expose is full of startling revelations, provocative arguments, and disturbing conclusions - all based on research and information gleaned from secret industry documents. The book reveals 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 immedidate dangers ordinary citizens face because of the relentless failure of industrial polluters to warn, inform, and protect their workers and neighbours.

Gerald Markowitz is Professor of History at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. David Rosner is Professor of History and Public Health at Columbia University and Director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health. They are coauthors of Children, Race, and Power: Kenneth and Mamie Clark's Northside Center (1996) and Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth Century America (1994).

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Industry’s Child

The House of the Butterflies
Lead Poisoning among Workers and Consumers
A Child Lives in a Lead World
Cater to the Children
The Promotion of White Lead
Old Poisons, New Problems
Better Living through Chemistry?
Evidence of an Illegal Conspiracy by Industry
Damn Liars
Ol’ Man River or Cancer Alley?
A Hazy Mixture
Science, Civil Rights, Pollution, and Politics
Science and Prudent Public Policy

Conclusion
Notes
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.10.2002
Reihe/Serie	California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public ; 6
Zusatzinfo	21 b/w photographs
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	508 g
Themenwelt	Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Pharmakologie / Toxikologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik
ISBN-10	0-520-21749-7 / 0520217497
ISBN-13	978-0-520-21749-2 / 9780520217492
Zustand	Neuware