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Old Paint: A Medical History of Childhood Lead-Paint Poisoning in the United States to 1980
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Old Paint: A Medical History of Childhood Lead-Paint Poisoning in the United States to 1980 By Peter C. English New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001) (255 pages; $69.00 cloth)
In the prologue of Old Paint, author Peter English describes the history of childhood lead poisoning as a "dynamic epidemiological evolution" (p. 2) that tied physicians, public health officials, and the lead paint industry in a web of responses and counter-responses that lasted throughout the twentieth century. Portraying the lead industry and public health community as "collaborators" against the hazardous effects of lead paint in children, he argues, in effect, that the lead industry, through …
