Modern Poisons A Brief Introduction to Contemporary Toxicology /

This book explains basic principles in plain language while illuminating the most important issues in contemporary toxicology. The author begins by exploring age-old precepts of the field such as the dose-response relationship and the concept, first introduced by Ambroise Paré in the sixteenth cent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kolok, Alan (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
Temas:
Environment.
Biochemistry.
Environmental Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • 1. Dose Makes the Poison
  • 2. Nature of a Chemical
  • 3. The Human Animal
  • 4. Chemical Journeys: Absorption
  • 5. Bodily Defense
  • 6. Wider Journeys: Pollution
  • 7. Travelling Particles
  • 8. Toxins, Poisons, and Venoms
  • 9. Metals: Gift and Curse
  • 10. Combustion
  • 11. Drugs and the Toxicology of Addiction
  • 12. 70,000 Years of Pesticides
  • 13. Origins of Regulation
  • 14. Legislating for Health
  • 15. POPS and Silent Spring
  • 16. Toxic Toiletries
  • 17. Determining Sex: Chemicals and Reproduction
  • 18. The Earliest Exposure: Transgenerational Toxicology
  • 19. Natural Toxins Revisited
  • 20. Chemical Resistance
  • Afterword: Toxicology and Beyond
  • References.

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