Lead wars : the politics of science and the fate of America's children / Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner.

Berkeley ; London : University of California Press ; New York : Milbank Memorial Fund, [2013], ©2013.

xxii, 298 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From personal tragedy to public health crisis -- Peeling the onion : new layers of the lead problem -- The contentious meaning of low-level exposures -- The rise of public health pragmatism -- Controlled poison -- Research on trial -- Lead poisoning and the courts -- A plague on all our houses.