Title The great lead water pipe disaster / Werner Troesken.

Publication Info.	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2006]
	©2006

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Description	1 online resource (x, 318 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-309) and index.
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.
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Summary	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.
Subject	Water-pipes -- Materials -- History.
	Lead -- Environmental aspects -- History.
	Lead -- Toxicology -- History.
	Drinking water -- Lead content -- History.
	Pipe, Lead -- History.
	Lead poisoning -- History.
	Lead Poisoning.
	Environmental Exposure.
	History, 19th Century.
	History, 20th Century.
	Water Supply -- history.
	Gesundheitsschaden -- Materials.
	TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Pollution Control.
	Lood.
	Waterleidingen.
	Eclampsie.
	Vergiftiging.
	Milieutoxicologie.
	Trinkwasser.
	Bleibelastung.
	Gesundheitspolitik.
	Wasserleitung.
	Blei.
	Gesundheitsschaden.
	United States.
	Großbritannien.
Chronological Term	Geschichte 1850-2000
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Troesken, Werner, 1963- Great lead water pipe disaster. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006 (DLC) 2006049401 (OCoLC)70176961
ISBN	9780262285179 (electronic bk.)
	0262285177 (electronic bk.)

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