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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 about how the deaths from the London smog of 1952 were falsely attributed to influenza; how the oil companies and auto manufacturers fought for decades to keep lead in gasoline, while knowing it caused brain damage; and many other battles. When Smoke Ran Like Water makes a devastating case for change.

ISBN-13: 9780465015221

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Basic Books

Publication Date: 12-25-2003

Pages: 352

Product Dimensions: 5.30(w) x 7.95(h) x 1.30(d)

Devra Davis, PhD, MPH, directs Pittsburgh's Center for Environmental Oncology and is Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh. Contributor to the Nobel Peace Prize of 2007, she was founding director of the Board on Environmental Studies at the National Academy of Science and presidential appointee to the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. She is the acclaimed author of When Smoke Ran Like Water, Finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in Washington, D.C., and Jackson Hole, Wyoming. www.DevraDavis.com

What People are Saying About This

John Topping

"Following in the tradition of the great science writers, from Aristotle to Steven Jay Gould, Davis has produced a sizzling rendering . . . This is simply the best book on the environment since Silent Spring . . . I honestly could not put it down." -- John Topping, President, Climate Institute

Weil

"Devra captures our imaginations and makes us think differently about the environment and health."

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Preface xi
Part 1 Ancient History 1
1 Where I Come From 5
2 The Phantom Epidemic 31
3 How to Become a Statistic 55
4 How the Game Is Played 89
Part 2 The Best of Intentions 123
5 Zones of Incomprehension 125
6 The New Sisterhood of Breast Cancer 159
7 Save the Males 193
Part 3 The View from Outside 223
8 Earthquakes and Spouting Bowls 225
9 A Grand Experiment 247
10 Defiant Figures 273
Acknowledgments 283
Notes 287
Index 305