1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463110103321

Autore

Markowitz Gerald E

Titolo

Lead wars [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of science and the fate of America's children / / Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press

New York, : Milbank Memorial Fund, c2013

ISBN

0-520-95495-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (323 p.)

Collana

California/Milbank books on health and the public ; ; 24

Altri autori (Persone)

RosnerDavid <1947->

Disciplina

363.738/492

Soggetti

Lead poisoning - United States - History

Lead poisoning in children - United States

Lead poisoning in children - Prevention - Government policy - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: A Legacy of Neglect -- 2. From Personal Tragedy to Public Health Crisis -- 3. Peeling the Onion -- 4. The Contentious Meaning of Low-Level Exposures -- 5. The Rise of Public Health Pragmatism -- 6. Controlled Poison -- 7. Research on Trial -- 8. Lead Poisoning and the Courts -- 9. A Plague on All Our Houses -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 children.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453940903321

Titolo

Conflict and development in Iranian film [[electronic resource] /] / A.A. Seyed-Gohrab & K. Talattof (eds.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Leiden?], : Leiden University Press, 2013

ISBN

94-006-0103-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Collana

Iranian studies series

Altri autori (Persone)

Seyed-GohrabA. A <1968-> (Ali Asghar)

TalattofK

Disciplina

791.43

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Iran

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Conflict and Development in Iranian Film""; ""Content""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Politics and Persistence: The Development of Iranian Film""; ""The Sound of Frogs at Night: Kiarostami�s Philosophy of Cinema""; ""Sexuality and Cultural Change: The Presentation of Sex and Gender in Pre- and Post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema""; ""Kiarostami�s Cinematic Poetry in Where is the Friend�s Home? and The Wind will Carry Us""; ""Which Half is Hidden? The Public or the Private: An Analysis of Milani�s The Hidden Half""; ""Abbas Kiarostami and the Aesthetics of Ghazal""



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785063003321

Autore

Paik Peter Yoonsuk

Titolo

From utopia to apocalypse [[electronic resource] ] : science fiction and the politics of catastrophe / / Peter Y. Paik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2010

ISBN

1-4529-4607-8

0-8166-7341-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Disciplina

809.3/8762

Soggetti

Science fiction - History and criticism

Utopias in literature

Apocalypse in literature

Politics in literature

Politics and literature - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : The god that succeeded -- Utopia achieved : the case of Watchmen -- The defense of necessity : on Jang Joon-Hwan's Save the green planet -- The saintly politics of catastrophe : Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind -- Between trauma and tragedy : from The matrix to V for vendetta.

Sommario/riassunto

""I read Peter Y. Paik's lucid, graceful, ruthless book in one single astonished sitting. I scarred it all over with arrows and exclamation points, so I can read it again as soon as possible."" -Bruce Sterling Revolutionary narratives in recent science fiction graphic novels and films compel audiences to reflect on the politics and societal ills of the day. Through character and story, science fiction brings theory to life, giving shape to the motivations behind the action as well as to the consequences they produce. In From Utopia to