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(California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public.) By Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner. 408 pp., illustrated. Berkeley and New York, University of California Press and the Milbank Memorial Fund, 2002. $34.95. ISBN 0-520-21749-7.

Deceit and Denial chronicles the history of poisoning by environmental lead and vinyl chloride. Parts of the stories have been told before, but recent litigation has forced thousands of once-secret industry documents into the open, revealing long-standing conspiracies to conceal evidence of the hazards of these two agents from the American public.

Lead is an old but continuing industrial hazard. Italy's Bernardino Ramazzini, in his book Diseases of Workers, published in 1713, lamented the poisoning of potters and painters by lead-glazing fumes and lead paints, respectively. Markowitz and Rosner show that new forms of lead poisoning emerged in the 20th . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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