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  • Building the Worlds That Kill Us: Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History

    Building the Worlds That Kill Us: Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History - Paperback

    Building the Worlds That Kill Us: Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History - Paperback

    By David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz

About Gerald Markowitz Books

David Rosner is the Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and professor of history in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University and the director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at the Mailman School. Gerald Markowitz is distinguished professor of history at John Jay College. Together, they have written many books, including Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth-Century America (1991) and Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children (2014). They are both elected members of the National Academy of Science's National Academy of Medicine.