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When Smoke Ran Like Water
Devra Davis
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Description for When Smoke Ran Like Water
Paperback. The National Book Award Finalist from a leading public-health expert, this is the unknown story of how environmental pollution has affected our health-past, present, and future Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 171 x 203 x 23. Weight in Grams: 334.
In When Smoke Ran Like Water , the world-renowned epidemiologist Devra Davis confronts the public triumphs and private failures of her lifelong battle against environmental pollution. She documents the shocking toll of a public-health disaster-300,000 deaths a year in the U.S. and Europe from the effects of pollution-and asks why we remain silent. For Davis, the issue is personal: Pollution is what killed many in her family and forced some of the others, survivors of the 1948 smog emergency in Donora, Pennsylvania, to live out their lives with impaired health. She describes that episode and also makes startling revelations ... Read more
In When Smoke Ran Like Water , the world-renowned epidemiologist Devra Davis confronts the public triumphs and private failures of her lifelong battle against environmental pollution. She documents the shocking toll of a public-health disaster-300,000 deaths a year in the U.S. and Europe from the effects of pollution-and asks why we remain silent. For Davis, the issue is personal: Pollution is what killed many in her family and forced some of the others, survivors of the 1948 smog emergency in Donora, Pennsylvania, to live out their lives with impaired health. She describes that episode and also makes startling revelations ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The Perseus Books Group United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780465015221
SKU
V9780465015221
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About Devra Davis
Devra Davis, Ph.D., M.P.H., is the Director of the centre for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and Professor of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health. She was appointed by President Clinton to the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board in 1994 and also served as Scholar in Residence at the National Academy of Science. She ... Read more
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