A Tribute to Elizabeth Fee for Her Powerful Work on Behalf of Public Health

摘要

In 1990, Liz Fee wrote a short, but powerful piece on the history of lead poisoning in Baltimore, Maryland, her adopted hometown. Liz was then a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, and “Public Health in Practice: An Early Confrontation With the ‘Silent Epidemic’ of Childhood Lead Paint Poisoning” embodied her belief that history has real, practical import for public health professionals and working-class communities. History can explore, empower, and even embolden those whose lives have been transformed by exposure to lead, a subtle, sometimes deadly, neurotoxin.1