By Christian Warren. 362 pp., illustrated. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. $45. ISBN 0-8018-6289-2.
Brush with Death: A Social History of Lead Poisoning is engrossingto read, despite some faults. Although the author attempts toportray it as an objective history of lead poisoning in theUnited States in the 20th century, the book has an "attitude":the transgressions of the producers and industrial users oflead are cast in an angry light, in contrast with those affectedand their advocates, who are rendered as virtuous. For manyreaders, this attitude will be cheered or jeered, but in eithercase it will impair the objectivity with which the book is read.Many will . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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