How Much Risk ?

A Guide to Environmental Health Hazards

Inge F. Goldstein, Martin Goldstein

338 pages, parution le 13/03/2002

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Résumé

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 leukemia clusters around nuclear plants are discussed and how scientists asses 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.

Contents

Introduction
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 Lanfill ?
Asthma, Allergy, and Air Pollution
Summary : Lessons from a Disaster

Bibliography
Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Inge F. Goldstein, Martin Goldstein
Parution	13/03/2002
Nb. de pages	338
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	631g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780195139945
ISBN13	978-0-19-513994-5