Gerald A Markowitz

World Civilizations: Sources, Images And Interpretations

World Civilizations: Sources, Images And Interpretations

World Civilizations: Sources, Images And Interpretations

World Civilizations: Sources, Images And Interpretations

World Civilizations: Sources, Images And Interpretations

World Civilizations: Sources, Images And Interpretations

World Civilizations: Sources, Images And Interpretations

Dying for Work: Worker's Safety and Health in Twentieth-Century America

Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public)

In this incisive examination of lead poisoning during the past half century, Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner focus on one of the most contentious and bitter battles in the history of public health. Lead Wars details how the nature of the epidemic has changed and highlights the dilemmas public heal...

World Civilizations; Sources, Images and Interpretations Volume I

The first in a two-volume anthology of primary, secondary and visual sources, this reader provides a broad introduction to the evolution of World Civilizations from ancient history to 1700, and gives students insight into how historians use and interpret evidence in an effort to broaden their unders...

World Civilization: Sources, Images and Interpretations Volume II

The second in a two-volume anthology of primary, secondary and visual sources, this reader provides a broad introduction to the evolution of World Civilizations from ancient history to 1700, and gives students insight into how historians use and interpret evidence in an effort to broaden their under...

Deadly Dust

During the Depression, silicosis, an industrial lung disease, emerged as a national social crisis. Experts estimated that hundreds of thousands of workers were at risk of disease, disability, and death by inhaling silica in mines, foundries, and quarries. By the 1950s, however, silicosis was nearly...

Are We Ready?: Public Health since 9/11 (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public)

A contemporary history of a critical period, Are We Ready? analyzes the impact of 9/11, the anthrax attacks that followed, and preparations for a possible smallpox attack on the nation's public health infrastructure. David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz interviewed local, state, and federal officials t...

Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the On-Going Struggle to Protect Workers' Health (Conversations in Medicine and Society)

During the Depression, silicosis, an industrial lung disease, emerged as a national social crisis. Experts estimated that hundreds of thousands of workers were at risk of disease, disability, and death by inhaling silica in mines, foundries, and quarries. By the 1950s, however, silicosis was nearly ...

Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public)

In this incisive examination of lead poisoning during the past half century, Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner focus on one of the most contentious and bitter battles in the history of public health. Lead Wars details how the nature of the epidemic has changed and highlights the dilemmas public heal...

World Civilizations: Sources, Images and Interpretations, Volume I

This flexible two-volume anthology of primary, secondary and visual sources provides a broad introduction to the evolution of World Civilizations from ancient history to 1700. A wide selection of short documents, photographs, maps and charts is presented along with introduction, commentaries, guides...