1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786266903321

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

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.

UNINA9910828225503321

Autore

Stokes Simon <1963->

Titolo

Digital copyright : law and practice / / Simon Stokes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Hart Publishing, , 2019

ISBN

1-5099-1732-2

1-5099-1730-6

Edizione

[Fifth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (lvi, 298 pages)

Disciplina

346.410482

Soggetti

Copyright and electronic data processing - Great Britain

Copyright, International

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previous edition: 2014.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Why digital copyright matters -- Digital copyright: the basics -- Digital database law and the internet -- Digital moral rights : the basics -- Digital rights and competition Law -- Software copyright -- Digital copyright and e-commerce -- Digital copyright: from Web 2.0 to blockchain -- Protecting and managing your digital copyright assets.

Sommario/riassunto

The first edition of this book in 2002 was the first UK text to examine digital copyright together with related areas such as performers' rights, moral rights, database rights and competition law as a subject in its own right. Now in its fifth edition, the book has been substantially updated and revised to take account of legal and policy developments in copyright law and related areas, the new UK copyright exceptions, recent CJEU cases, the regulation of Collective Management Organisations, orphan works, and developments in EU copyright legislation and the EU's Digital Single Market Strategy. It also contains new sections on big data and data mining, the impact of artificial intelligence and blockchain on copyright, and the future for UK copyright after Brexit. The book helps put digital copyright law and policy into perspective and provides practical guidance for those



creating or exploiting digital content or technology, whether in academia, the software, information, publishing and creative industries, or other areas of the economy. The focus of Digital Copyright is on the specifics of the law in this area together with practical aspects. Both academics and practitioners will find the book an invaluable guide to this ever-expanding field of law.