TOXIC TRUTH(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　They didn’t start out as environmental warriors. Clair
Patterson was a geochemist focused on determining the age of the
Earth. Herbert Needleman was a pediatrician treating inner-city
children. But in the chemistry lab and the hospital ward, they met
a common enemy: lead. 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.
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 harm lead was doing to
children. In heated conferences and courtrooms, the halls of
Congress and at the Environmental Protection Agency, the scientist
and doctor were forced to defend their careers and reputations in
the face of incredible industry opposition. It took courage,
passion, and determination to prevail against entrenched corporate
interests and politicized government bureaucracies. But Patterson,
Needleman, and their allies did finally get the lead out – since it
was removed from gasoline, paint, and food cans in the 1970s, the
level of lead in Americans’ bodies has dropped 90 percent. Their
success offers a lesson in the dangers of putting economic
priorities over public health, and a reminder of the way
science-and individuals-can change the world.
　　The fundamental questions raised by this battle-what constitutes
disease, how to measure scientific independence, and how to
quantify acceptable risk-echo in every environmental issue of
today: from the plastic used to make water bottles to greenhouse
gas emissions. And the most basic question-how much do we need to
know about what we put in our environment-is perhaps more relevant
today than it has ever been.

Introduction
Prelude
CHAPTER ONE    Every Conceivable
Source  
CHAPTER TWO   The Faces of the Children 
CHAPTER THREE  That Nut at Caltech 
CHAPTER FOUR   Proof of Principle 
CHAPTER FIVE   A Majority of One 
CHAPTER SIX     Reluctant to Relent 
CHAPTER SEVEN  What Have We Done? 
CHAPTER EIGHT  A Professional Death Sentence
Acknowledgments
Timeline
Sources
Index