The Fluoride Wars: How a Modest Public Health Measure Became America's Longest-Running Political Melodrama

by Jay H. Lehr and R. Allan Freeze

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 policymaking. In addition to the arguments on the issue still raging today, the tale of fluoridation and its discontents also resonates with such present...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470448334
• ISBN13: 9780470448335
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"