How Much Risk? A Guide to Understanding Environmental Health Hazards

Name: How Much Risk? A Guide to Understanding Environmental Health Hazards
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ISBN: 9780195139945

ISBN-10: 0195139941

ISBN-13: 9780195139945

Edition: 2002

Authors: Inge F. Goldstein, Martin Goldstein

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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.

Book details

List price: $69.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/3/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.29" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English




Introduction: What We Hope to Do



Atomic Bombs, Nuclear Fallout, and Dental X-Rays



Radon in Your Basement



Childhood Leukemia Near Nuclear Plants



Breast Cancer, Part 1: The Rise of Activism and the Pesticide Hypothesis



Breast Cancer, Part 2: Testing the Pesticide Hypothesis



Power Lines, Magnetic Fields, and Cancer



Cancer from the Landfill?



Asthma, Allergy, and Air Pollution



Summary: Lessons from a Disaster


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