Lead as pharmakon: IQ, violence, and the racialization of a toxic element.

By tracking lead toxicology and politics from the United States to Peru, this article shows how contemporary discourses of human lead exposure have become complexly racialized. Despite its nearly global ban from gasoline and paint, lead poisoning remains a systemic health problem in marginalized com...

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Publicado en:	Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 1 - 16
Autor principal:	Graeter, Stefanie Toney
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Wiley-Blackwell Dec2025
Materias:	United States Peru Racialization Cognitive ability Health equity Poor communities Discrimination (Sociology) Violence Lead Toxicology
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