Human lead exposure

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HISTORICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BACKGROUND. Saturnine Drugs and Medicinal Exposure to Lead: An Historical Outline (Jerome O. Nriagu). Modern History of Lead Poisoning - A Century of Discovery and Rediscovery (Jane S. Lin-Fu). The Monitoring of Human Lead Exposure (Paul Mushak). Lead in the Environment: From Sources to Human Receptors (Cliff I. Davidson and Michael Rabinowitz). NEUROBIOLOGICAL FACTORS. Neurological Perspective on Lead Toxicity (Eellen K. Silbergeld). Visual and Auditory System Alterations Following Developmental or Adult Lead Exposure: A Critical Review (Donald A. Fox). Developmental Neurobiology of Lead Toxicity (Gary W. Goldstein). Behavioral Impairment Produced by Developmental Lead Exposure: Evidence from Primate Research (Deborah C. Rice). HUMAN LEAD EXPOSURE. Occupational Lead Exposure (Thomas D. Matte, Philip J. Landrigan, and Edward L. Baker). Lead, the Kidney, and Hypertension (Richard P. Wedeen). Neurodevelopmental Effects of Low-Level Lead Exposure in Chi ldren (David Bellinger and Herbert L. Needleman). Low Level Lead Exposure: Effect on Quantitative Electroencephalography and Correlation with Neuropsychologic Measures (James L. Burchfiel, Frank H. Duffy, Peter H. Bartels, and Herbert L. Needleman). Lead, Blood Pressure, and Cardiovascular Disease (Joel Schwartz). Low-Level Health Effects of Lead: Growth, Developmental, and Neurological Disturbances (Joel Schwartz). Recent Epidemiologic Studies of Low Level Lead Exposure and the IQ of Children: A Meta-Analytic Review (Constantine A. Gatsonis and Herbert L. Needleman). SOCIOLOGICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES. Economic Aspects of the Litigation for Harm Due to Lead Poisoning (Richard G. Frank). The Role of Values in Science and Policy: The Case of Lead (Samuel P. Hays.