An Updated Reference on Human Exposure to Environmental Toxicants and A Study of Their Impact on Public Health
With the 4th edition of Environmental Toxicants: Human Exposures and Their Health Effects, readers have access to up-to-date information on the study and science of environmental toxicology and public health worldwide. Practitioners and professionals can use this resource to understand newly discovered information on the adverse health effects of toxins and pollutants in air, water, and occupational and environmental environments on large human populations.
The 4th edition of this book is updated to reflect new knowledge and research on:
* Performing risk assessments on exposed individuals
* Assessing the effects of toxicants and substances on large populations for health and medical professionals
* Patterns of human exposure to select chemical toxicants
* World Trade Center dust, agents for chemical terrorism, and nanoparticles
For health professionals, including health authorities, public health officials, physicians, and industrial managers, who are seeking new research and techniques for managing environmental substances, this invaluable reference will guide you through in a thorough, easy- to-read manner.
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Höhe: 259 mm
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Dicke: 41 mm
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978-1-119-43880-9 (9781119438809)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Morton Lippmann, Ph.D., earned a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering at Cooper Union, an MS in Industrial Hygiene at Harvard School of Public Health, and a PhD in Environmental Health Science at New York University (NYU) School of Engineering, He is currently a professor of Environmental Medicine at NYU School of Medicine. He has spent his adult life researching the health effects of particulate matter (PM) in ambient air on public health. He has published over 370 research papers and two reference texts on environmental health science.
George D. Leikauf earned his A.B at the University of California, Berkeley, his Ph.D. in environmental health science at New York University, and finished his postdoctoral training at CVRI-University of California, San Francisco. Throughout his career, he has developed several in vitro approaches to the study of pulmonary epithelial, cellular, and molecular responses to toxicants. Currently, he is a professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health.
Herausgeber*in
Institute of Environmental Medicine New York University Medical Center
List of Contributors
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction and background
Chapter 2: Perspectives on individual and community risk
Chapter 3: Reducing risks--an environmental engineering perspective
Chapter 4: Clinical perspective on respiratory toxicology
Chapter 5 : Industrial perspectives: translating the knowledge base into corporate policies, programs, and practices for health protection
Chapter 6: Food constituents and contaminants
Chapter 7: Acrolein and unsaturated aldehydes
Chapter 8: Chemical weapons
Chapter 9: Ambient air particulate matter
Chapter 10: Arsenic
Chapter 11: Asbestos and other mineral and vitreous fibers
Chapter 12: Carbon monoxide
Chapter 13: Chromium
Chapter 14: Diesel exhaust and lung cancer risk
Chapter 15: Endocrine disrupting chemicals
Chapter 16: Formaldehyde and other saturated aldehydes
Chapter 17: Lead and compounds
Chapter 18: Mercury
Chapter 19: Cardiopulmonary effects of nanomaterials
Chapter 20: Nitrogen oxides
Chapter 21: Ozone
Chapter 22: Pesticides
Chapter 23: Radon and lung cancer
Chapter 24: Secondhand tobacco smoke
Chapter 25: Sulfur oxides (sox) - so2, h2so4, nh4hso4, and (nh4)2so4
Chapter 26: World trade center (WTC) dust
