Toxic Truth - A Scientist, a Doctor, and the Battle over Lead Denworth LydiaPaperback / softback
Toxic Truth - A Scientist, a Doctor, and the Battle over Lead Denworth LydiaPaperback / softback They didn't start out as environmental warriors. Herbert Needleman was a pediatrician treating…
Specifikacia Toxic Truth - A Scientist, a Doctor, and the Battle over Lead Denworth LydiaPaperback / softback
Toxic Truth - A Scientist, a Doctor, and the Battle over Lead Denworth LydiaPaperback / softback
They didn't start out as environmental warriors. Herbert Needleman was a pediatrician treating inner-city children. Clair Patterson was a geochemist focused on determining the age of the Earth.
It was literally everywhere-in gasoline and paint, of course, but also in water pipes and food cans, toothpaste tubes and toys, ceramics and cosmetics, jewelry and batteries. But in the chemistry lab and the hospital ward, they met a common enemy: lead. Though few people worried about it at the time, lead was also toxic.In Toxic Truth, journalist Lydia Denworth tells the little-known stories of these two men who were among the first to question the wisdom of filling the world with such a harmful metal.
Denworth follows them from the ice and snow of Antarctica to the schoolyards of Philadelphia and Boston as they uncovered the enormity of the problem and demonstrated the irreparable