The great lead water pipe disaster / / Werner Troesken
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| Autore: |
Troesken Werner <1963->
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| Titolo: |
The great lead water pipe disaster / / Werner Troesken
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 363.738/492 |
| Soggetto topico: | Drinking water - Lead content - History |
| Lead poisoning - History | |
| Lead - Environmental aspects - History | |
| Lead - Toxicology - History | |
| Pipe, Lead - History | |
| Water-pipes - Materials - History | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-309) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The great lead water pipe disaster |
| ISBN: | 0-262-31186-0 |
| 1-282-09739-3 | |
| 0-262-28517-7 | |
| 9786612097393 | |
| 1-4294-5538-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807879603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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