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The fluoride wars : how a modest public health measure became America's longest-running political melodrama /

A lively account of fluoridation and its discontents. Since its first implementation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1945, public drinking water fluoridation and its attendant conflicts, controversies, and conspiracy theories serve as an object lesson in American science, public health, and policymaki...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Freeze, R. Allan
Other Authors: Lehr, Jay H., 1936-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, [2009]
Series:Wiley Online Library.
Subjects:
Water > Fluoridation > United States > History.
Pressure groups > United States > History.
Fluoridation.
Pressure groups.
Water.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
MEDICAL > Infectious Diseases.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Contagious.
Water > Fluoridation.
United States.
Fluoridation > history.
Attitude to Health.
Public Health.
Public Opinion.
Water Supply > history.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • A story of our times
  • A clash of absolutes
  • A tale of two cities
  • Two women
  • The road to fluoridation
  • Fluorophobia
  • Look Ma. no cavities : fluoride and teeth
  • Fluoride and health
  • EPA and the MCLs
  • Riding the tiger : the dosage issue
  • Science and not science
  • Money, motive, and risk
  • The light at the end of the tunnel.