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abf-391	del Nido, Juan M.	From Lead through activism to activism through lead	2021	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1360	38	27	From Lead through activism to activism through lead Reviewer: Dr. Juan M del Nido Life Without Lead: Contamination, Crisis and Hope in Uruguay, by Daniel Renfrew, Oakland, CA, University of California Press, 2018, 296 pp., $85.00 (hardback), ISBN 978- 0520295469, $29.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0520295476 Keywords: lead, Uruguay, environmental anthropology, activism, Latin America Life Without Lead examines how lead poisoning became the first environmental problem to reach mass awareness in Uruguay, a self-styled continental haven of stable, middle class, “it can’t happen here” industriousness. When health protocols were finally set up, contamination tolerance thresholds were exceptionally lenient in international terms, downplaying the seriousness of lead poisoning as an epidemic and reducing the number of cases in need of an assistance already insufficient.	cache/abf-391.pdf	txt/abf-391.txt