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List of Contributors | |
Introduction | |
Natural Geologic Hazards | |
Linking Health To Geology | |
Physical--Obvious and Immediate | |
Commentary | |
Natural Dust and Pneumoconiosis in High Asia | |
Human Sickness and Mortality Rates in Relation to the Distant Eruption of Volcanic Gases: Rural England and the 1783 Eruption of the Laki Fissure, Iceland | |
Chemical--"Silent" and Long Term | |
Commentary | |
Human Geophagy: a Review of Its Distribution, Causes, and Implications | |
Geogenic Arsenic and Associated Toxicity Problems in the Groundwater-Soil-Plant-Animal-Human Continuum | |
Geological Epidemiology: Coal Combustion in China | |
Mitigation of Endemic Arsenocosis with Selenium: an Example from China | |
Biogeochemical Cycling of Iodine and Selenium and Potential Geomedical Relevance | |
Environmental Iodine in Iodine Deficiency Disorders, with a Sri Lankan Example | |
Mercury, a Toxic Metal, and Dental Amalgam Removal | |
Nuclear Accumulation of Mercury in Neutrophil Granulocytes Associated with Exposure from Dental Amalgam | |
Cadmium Accumulation in Browse Vegetation, Alaska--Implications for Animal Health | |
Molybdenosis Leading to Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Swedish Moose | |
Anthropogenic Changes to the Geologic Environment | |
Commentary | |
Surface and Groundwater Quality and Health, with a Focus on the United Kingdom | |
Breast and Prostate Cancer: Sources and Pathways of Endocrine-disrupting Chemicals | |
A Legacy of Empires? An Exploration of the Environmental and Medical Consequences of Metal Production in Wadi Faynan, Jordan | |
Life in a Copper Province | |
Health Problems Related to Environmental Fibrous Minerals | |
Anthropogenic Distribution of Lead | |
Identifying the Hazards | |
Commentary | |
Environmental Geochemistry on a Global Scale | |
Biogeochemical Monitoring in Medical Geology | |
Some Environmental Problems of Geomedical Relevance in East and Southern Africa | |
Geochemistry and Vertebrate Bones | |
Soil Nutrient Deficiencies in an Area of Endemic Osteoarthritis (Mseleni Joint Disease) and Dwarfism in Maputoland, South Africa | |
Minerals in Human Blood Vessels and Their Dissolution in Vitro | |
Organic Compounds Derived from Pliocene Lignite and the Etiology of Balkan Endemic Nephropathy | |
Summary | |
Glossary of Medical Terms | |
Index | |
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