The great lead water pipe disaster / Werner Troesken.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Troesken, Werner, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drinking water--Lead content--History.

Drinking water.

Lead poisoning--History.

Lead poisoning.

Lead--Environmental aspects--History.

Lead.

Lead--Toxicology--History.

Pipe, Lead--History.

Pipe, Lead.

Water-pipes--Materials--History.

Water-pipes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The history of a long-running environmental catastrophe chronicles the harmful effects of lead pipes and their continued use despite evidence that they pose a significant health risk.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue: Exhuming Michael Galler

1 The Significance of the Small

2 A House for Erasmus

3 Fixing Alice

4 The Latent History of Eclampsia

5 The Secret of Dr. Porritt's Society

6 A False Sense of Simplicity

7 Responsibility in the Court of the Absurd

8 The Legend of Loch Katrine

9 Building on the Past

Appendix A Estimating the Effects of Lead Water Pipes on Infant and Fetal Mortality

Appendix B A Statistical Supplement to The Menace and Geography of Eclampsia

Appendix C The Correlates of Lead Solvency

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-309) and index.

ISBN:

0-262-31186-0

1-282-09739-3

0-262-28517-7

9786612097393

1-4294-5538-1

OCLC:

658167800