Equips rescuers and health care professionals to diagnose and treat the full range of emergencies and health problems encountered in the wilderness, from frostbite to infection by marine microbes, includng bites, stings, poisonous plant exposures, animal attacks, and natural dis…
"Environmental Health Ethics illuminates the conflicts between protecting the environment and promoting human health. In this study, David B. Resnik develops a method for making ethical decisions on environmental health issues. He applies this method to various issues, including…
Originally published in 1980, this book focusses attention on various aspects of disease ecology. A series of contrasts appear, between urban and rural, temperate and tropical, and affluent and poor communities. These socio-geographical contrasts are related to a further dichoto…
Progress in medical geology
Progress in medical geology
This volume represents a compendium of research conducted by international scholars who participated in the 2nd Symposium on Advances in Geospatial held during "The 5th International Conference on Medical Geology" in Arlington, Virginia, USA, in 2013. The research topics dealt w…
List of Contributors. Introduction. Part I : Natural Geologic Hazards. 1. Linking Health To Geology, Antony R. Berger. A. Physical--Obvious and Immediate. Commentary. 2. Natural Dust and Pneumoconiosis in High Asia, Edward Derbyshire. 3. Human Sickness and Mortality Rates in Rel…