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- ISBN：9780807000328
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- 出版时间：2009-03
- 页数：249
- 价格：85.00
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- 装帧：精装
- 开本：32开
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内容简介：
They didn't start out as environmental warriors. Clair
Patterson was a geochemist focused on determining the age of the
Earth. Herbert Needleman was a pediatrician treating inner-city
children. But in the chemistry lab and the hospital ward, they met
a common enemy: lead. It was literally everywhere-in gasoline and
paint, of course, but also in water pipes and food cans, toothpaste
tubes and toys, ceramics and cosmetics, jewelry and batteries.
Though few people worried about it at the time, lead was also
toxic.
In Toxic Truth, journalist Lydia Denworth tells the little-known
stories of these two men who were among the first to question the
wisdom of filling the world with such a harmful metal. Denworth
follows them from the ice and snow of Antarctica to the schoolyards
of Philadelphia and Boston as they uncovered the enormity of the
problem and demonstrated the irreparable harm lead was doing to
children. In heated conferences and courtrooms, the halls of
Congress and at the Environmental Protection Agency, the scientist
and doctor were forced to defend their careers and reputations in
the face of incredible industry opposition. It took courage,
passion, and determination to prevail against entrenched corporate
interests and politicized government bureaucracies. But Patterson,
Needleman, and their allies did finally get the lead out - since it
was removed from gasoline, paint, and food cans in the 1970s, the
level of lead in Americans' bodies has dropped 90 percent. Their
success offers a lesson in the dangers of putting economic
priorities over public health, and a reminder of the way
science-and individuals-can change the world.
The fundamental questions raised by this battle-what constitutes
disease, how to measure scientific independence, and how to
quantify acceptable risk-echo in every environmental issue of
today: from the plastic used to make water bottles to greenhouse
gas emissions. And the most basic question-how much do we need to
know about what we put in our environment-is perhaps more relevant
today than it has ever been.
书籍目录：
Introduction
Prelude
CHAPTER ONE Every Conceivable
Source
CHAPTER TWO The Faces of the Children
CHAPTER THREE That Nut at Caltech
CHAPTER FOUR Proof of Principle
CHAPTER FIVE A Majority of One
CHAPTER SIX Reluctant to Relent
CHAPTER SEVEN What Have We Done?
CHAPTER EIGHT A Professional Death Sentence
Acknowledgments
Timeline
Sources
Index
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They didn't start out as environmental warriors. Clair Patterson was a geochemist focused on determining the age of the Earth. Herbert Needleman was a pediatrician treating inner-city children. But in the chemistry lab and the hospital ward, they met a common enemy: lead. It was literally everywhere-in gasoline and paint, of course, but also in water pipes and food cans, toothpaste tubes and toys, ceramics and cosmetics, jewelry and batteries. Though few people worried about it at the time, lead was also toxic.
In Toxic Truth , journalist Lydia Denworth tells the little-known stories of these two men who were among the first to question the wisdom of filling the world with such a harmful metal. Denworth follows them from the ice and snow of Antarctica to the schoolyards of Philadelphia and Boston as they uncovered the enormity of the problem and demonstrated the irreparable harm lead was doing to children. In heated conferences and courtrooms, the halls of Congress and at the Environmental Protection Agency, the scientist and doctor were forced to defend their careers and reputations in the face of incredible industry opposition. It took courage, passion, and determination to prevail against entrenched corporate interests and politicized government bureaucracies. But Patterson, Needleman, and their allies did finally get the lead out - since it was removed from gasoline, paint, and food cans in the 1970s, the level of lead in Americans' bodies has dropped 90 percent. Their success offers a lesson in the dangers of putting economic priorities over public health, and a reminder of the way science-and individuals-can change the world.
The fundamental questions raised by this battle-what constitutes disease, how to measure scientific independence, and how to quantify acceptable risk-echo in every environmental issue of today: from the plastic used to make water bottles to greenhouse gas emissions. And the most basic question-how much do we need to know about what we put in our environment-is perhaps more relevant today than it has ever been.
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