
How Much Risk?
A Guide to Understanding Environmental Health Hazards
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 28. February 2002
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-19-513994-5 (ISBN)
Description
An excellent critical analysis and scientific assessment of the nature and actual level of risk leading environmental health hazards pose to the public. Issues such as radiation from nuclear testing, radon in the home, and the connection between electromagnetic fields and cancer, environmental factors and asthma, pesticides and breast cancer and leukaemia clusters around nuclear plants are discussed and how scientists assesa these risks is illuminated. This book will enable readers to better understand environmental health issues and with the proper scientific understanding, make informed, rational decisions about them.
Reviews / Votes
... an interesting, scientifically faultless book written in language that an intelligent secondary school graduate can understand ... This is a well-balanced and enjoyable book that has increased my understanding of environmental risks and their assessment. * Family Practice *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
numerous halftones and line figures
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
699 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-513994-5 (9780195139945)
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Other editions
Additional editions

Inge F. Goldstein | Martin Goldstein
How Much Risk?
A Guide to Understanding Environmental Health Hazards
E-Book
01/2002
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€35.49
Available for download

Inge F. Goldstein | Martin Goldstein
How Much Risk?
A Guide to Understanding Environmental Health Hazards
E-Book
01/2002
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€35.49
Available for download
Persons
Author
Division of EpidemiologyDivision of Epidemiology, Columbia University School of Public Health
Professor of ChemistryProfessor of Chemistry, Yeshiva University
Content
Preface
1: Introduction: What We Hope to Do
2: Atomic Bombs, Nuclear Fallout, and Dental X-Rays
3: Radon in Your Basement
4: Childhood Leukemia Near Nuclear Plants
5: Breast Cancer, Part 1: The Rise of Activism and the Pesticide Hypothesis
6: Breast Cancer, Part 2: Testing the Pesticide Hypothesis
7: Power Lines, Magnetic Fields, and Cancer
8: Cancer from the Landfill?
9: Asthma, Allergy, and Air Pollution
10: Summary: Lessons from a Disaster
Bibliography
Index
1: Introduction: What We Hope to Do
2: Atomic Bombs, Nuclear Fallout, and Dental X-Rays
3: Radon in Your Basement
4: Childhood Leukemia Near Nuclear Plants
5: Breast Cancer, Part 1: The Rise of Activism and the Pesticide Hypothesis
6: Breast Cancer, Part 2: Testing the Pesticide Hypothesis
7: Power Lines, Magnetic Fields, and Cancer
8: Cancer from the Landfill?
9: Asthma, Allergy, and Air Pollution
10: Summary: Lessons from a Disaster
Bibliography
Index