Fifty Years of Peeling Away the Lead Paint Problem

Saving Our Children's Future with Healthy Housing

David Jacobs
Elsevier
460 pages
ISBN: 9780443187360
October 2022

This book documents the history of childhood lead poisoning from paint between 1970 and 2022. Tracing the failure of the medical model (treatment after exposure) that marked the 1970s and 1980s and its replacement with a prevention housing-focused effort, it documents the changes in health, housing and environmental science and policy. It is the first book to examine how the lead poisoning law in the U.S. was passed in 1992 and later implemented, with implications for the future, in particular, the emergence of a healthy housing movement.