Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public) Pdf

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Release: 2013-05-06
Publisher: University of California Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0520273257
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Lead Wars pdf
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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 chi Download Lead Wars for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Am I My Genes?: Confronting Fate and Family Secrets in the Age of Genetic Testing

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Edition: 1
Release: 2012-03-01
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0199837163
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In the fifty years since DNA was discovered, we have seen extraordinary advances. For example, genetic testing has rapidly improved the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as Huntington's, cystic fibrosis, breast cancer, and Alzheimer's. But with this new knowledge comes difficult decisions for countless people, who wrestle with fear about whether to get tested, and if so, what to do with the results.

Am I My Genes? shows how real individuals have confronted these issues in their daily lives. Robert L. Klitzman interviewed 64 people who faced Huntington's Disease, breast and ovarian cancer, or Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. The book describes--often in the person's own words--how each has wrestled with the vast implications that genetics has for their lives and their families. Klitzman shows how these men and women struggle to make sense of their predicament and its causes. They confront a series of quandaries--whether to be tested; whether to disclose their gene Download Am I My Genes? for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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