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9780195139945

How Much Risk? A Guide to Understanding Environmental Health Hazards

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195139945

  • ISBN10:

    0195139941

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-01-03
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

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 assess 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.

Author Biography

Inge F. Goldstein is on the faculty of the Division of Epidemiology in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.

Table of Contents

Introduction: What We Hope to Do
3(10)
Atomic Bombs, Nuclear Fallout, and Dental X-Rays
13(46)
Radon in Your Basement
59(42)
Childhood Leukemia Near Nuclear Plants
101(34)
Breast Cancer, Part 1: The Rise of Activism and the Pesticide Hypothesis
135(36)
Breast Cancer, Part 2: Testing the Pesticide Hypothesis
171(28)
Power Lines, Magnetic Fields, and Cancer
199(36)
Cancer from the Landfill?
235(34)
Asthma, Allergy, and Air Pollution
269(34)
Summary: Lessons from a Disaster
303(14)
Bibliography 317(8)
Index 325

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