For more on lead poisoning, check out John Oliver's episode of Last Week Tonight on Lead. For a guide to the Flint Water Crisis, read on here. Flint, Michigan is not the first incident of childhood lead poisoning. Even in the 19th century, the dangers of lead were known, if not acted on. This article details the timeline of the lead public health emergency and the lead industry's reaction to it, and Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner's book Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children discusses the nature of the lead poisoning epidemic and the way public health agencies have confronted it in the past and present. Markowitz and Rosner also wrote Building the Worlds that Kill Us: Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History, which explains the history of the United States from the colonial era to the present through the lens of death and disease.

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