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This is the sixth of the California/Milbank Books on Health and the
Public. The publishing partnership between the Fund and the Press seeks
to encourage the synthesis and communication of findings from research
that could contribute to more effective health policy.
Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner demonstrate the significance for
policy of the methods and findings of historical scholarship. On the basis
of research that has been reviewed by experts in history, biomedical
science, and policy, they describe decisions by executives of corporations
that produce lead products and plastics to withhold information about
the health hazards of their products and production processes from their
employees and regulators. These decisions contributed to the severe illness
and death of many employees of these corporations as well as of persons
who lived in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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