This book offers readers a unique way to sort through the rhetoric that accompanies questions of science and health. Surprisingly, the answers are not to be found in more and better scientific research. Better studies can reduce - but not eliminate - our uncertainty about chemic…
The editor of the Cato Institute's public policy Regulation magazine provocatively proposes that pragmatists, interventionists, and skeptics alike let market forces act as the sorting mechanism for weighing health risks from chemical exposures. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Por…
This book deals with the prevention of potential non-evident risks on human health associated with technology which encloses the general knowledge of developing processes used to achieve either goods or services. The voids in technological knowledge used in the development of ne…
Principles and methods for the assessment of risk from essential trace elements
by United Nations Environment Programme, International Program on Chemical Safety, Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals, International Labour Organisation, World Health Organization
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This book focuses on exposure toxicology in C. elegans. The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is sensitive to various environmental toxicants and stresses, and has proven to be an important animal model in both molecular and target-organ toxicology. As a result, over the past 30 y…
This book offers valuable insights into the latest concepts and findings from epidemiologic, clinical and basic studies in the burgeoning area of early-life environmental exposure and diseases. The book is divided into five parts, starting with an overview of environmental expos…
""Sacrifice Zones is the compelling companion work to Diamond, Steve Lerner's landmark study of a small Louisiana town coping with the ravages of pollution from the factories surrounding it. In this book, Lerner travels to a dozen low-income, mostly minority communities around t…
""Sacrifice Zones is the compelling companion work to Diamond, Steve Lerner's landmark study of a small Louisiana town coping with the ravages of pollution from the factories surrounding it. In this book, Lerner travels to a dozen low-income, mostly minority communities around t…
Significantly revised and updated, the fourth edition of this popular AAP policy manual helps you identify, prevent, and treat pediatric environmental health problems.
The 4th edition of this popular American Academy of Pediatrics policy manual puts critical children's health information and answers to parents' questions at your fingertips. From air pollutants to radiation, lead, pesticides, asthma, and child care and school environments -- cu…
Significantly revised and updated, the fourth edition of this popular AAP policy manual helps you identify, prevent, and treat pediatric environmental health problems.
