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Hanna-Attisha, Mona, author.
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Hanna-Attisha, Mona.
Lead poisoning -- Michigan -- Flint.
Drinking water -- Lead content -- Michigan -- Flint.
Water quality management -- Michigan -- Flint.
Physicians -- Michigan -- Flint -- Biography.
Whistle blowing -- Michigan -- Flint.
Flint (Mich.) -- Environmental conditions.
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What the eyes don't ...
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What the eyes don't see : a story of crisis, resistance, and hope in an American city / Mona Hanna-Attisha.
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Hanna-Attisha, Mona, author.
New York : One World, 2019.
Subjects
Hanna-Attisha, Mona.
Lead poisoning -- Michigan -- Flint.
Drinking water -- Lead content -- Michigan -- Flint.
Water quality management -- Michigan -- Flint.
Physicians -- Michigan -- Flint -- Biography.
Whistle blowing -- Michigan -- Flint.
Flint (Mich.) -- Environmental conditions.
ISBN:
9780399590856 (paperback)
0399590854 (paperback)
Description:
x, 364 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition:
One World trade paperback edition.
Contents:
How I got my name -- What the eyes don't see -- The barbecue -- The valedictorian -- Haji -- Red flags -- First encounter -- Miasma -- No response -- Sit down -- Jenny + the data -- Public health enemy #1 -- What field are you on? -- The man in the panda tie -- Environmental injustice -- Poisoned by policy -- Shortwave radio crackling -- Meeting the Mayor -- Aeb -- The press conference -- Splice and dice -- Numbers war -- Demonstration of proof -- All the things we found out later -- Fire ant -- Truth and reconciliation -- Prescription for hope -- Haji and the birds.
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The story of a significant environmental disaster and tale of a relentless physician who stood up to power. Shortly after the city of Flint shifted the source of its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint Fiver, citizens began complaining about the water but officials rebuffed them. Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician at the city's public hospital, had no reason to be concerned about the water and encouraged the parents and children in her care to continue drinking it. But a conversation at a cookout with an old friend, leaked documents from a rogue environmental inspector, and the activism of a concerned mother raised red flags about lead--a neurotoxin whose irreversible effects fall most heavily on children. This book is the story of how Dr. Mona--accompanied by a team of researchers, parents, friends, and community leaders--proved that Flint's kids were exposed to lead and then fought her own government and a brutal backlash to expose that truth to the world. At the center of the story is Dr. Mona herself--an immigrant, doctor, scientist, and mother whose family's activist roots inspired her pursuit of justice.--Adapted from jacket.
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