Cluster Mystery: Epidemic and the Children of Woburn, Mass. - Hardcover

Diperna, Paula

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801613019 ISBN 13: 9780801613012

Publisher: Book Sales, 1985

Synopsis

Recounts how a concerned mother, whose young son had died of leukemia, noticed a suspiciously high number of similar cases in the area, and discovered that unsuspected toxic waste sites were poisoning public wells with carcinogens

About this title

From Library Journal:

Environmentalist DiPerna details the drama of one mother's fight to alert medical and political powers-that-be of the danger of two industrially contaminated wells. The wells were ultimately responsible for a "cluster" epidemic of some 26 leukemia cases and deaths. Using the story of Anne Anderson and her son Jimmy, DiPerna explores the difficulties inherent in such epidemiologic environmental investigations. She intertwines high-points of epidemiologic history and recent toxic waste incidents with current knowledge of carcinogenic action and toxic contamination. She calls for innovation and cooperation in environmental research. This book brings the issue of toxic waste to the reader's doorstep. For public health, environmental, and large public libraries. Nancy B. Burrell, M.L.S., IBID Inc., Sarasota, Fla.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Book Sales
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0801613019
• ISBN 13: 9780801613012
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 415