Unleaded : : How Changing Our Gasoline Changed Everything / / Carrie Nielsen.
When leaded gasoline was first developed in the 1920s, medical experts were quick to warn of the public health catastrophes it would cause. Yet government regulators did not heed their advice, and for more than half a century, nearly all cars used leaded gasoline, which contributed to a nationwide e...
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (188 p.) :; 4 b-w images |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Lead in Twentieth- Century America
- 2. Where the Lead Came From
- 3. Getting the Lead Out
- 4. Lead in Amer i ca’s Children
- 5. Brains and Behavior and Lead
- 6. Lead and Violence
- 7. The Lead Problem Persists
- 8. Lessons from the Lead Battles
- Conclusion: Understanding Our Leaded World
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author