What risk? /

Whether the public or the environment is at risk is a commonly discussed question in numerous areas of public life, most recently and publicly with regard to issues like BSE, passive smoking and the dangers from pesticides in food production. It is therefore of great importance for everyone concerne...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bate, Roger
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997.
Edición:Rev ed.
Temas:
Environmental toxicology.
Health risk assessment.
Health Status Indicators
Ecotoxicology
�Ecotoxicologie.
Risques pour la sant�e > �Evaluation.
MEDICAL > Toxicology.
Environmental toxicology
Health risk assessment
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. METHODOLOGY
  • 1. Thresholds for carcinogens : a review of the relevant science and its implications for regulatory policy / James D. Wilson
  • 2. Biases introduced by confounding and imperfect retrospective and prospective exposure assessments / Alvan R. Feinstein
  • 3. Problems with very low dose risk evaluation : the case of asbestos / Etienne Fournier and Marie-Louise Efthymiou
  • pt. II. SCIENCE
  • 4. Benzene and leukaemia / J. Munby and D.F. Weetman
  • 5. Is environmental tobacco smoke a risk factor for lung cancer? / Robert Nilsson
  • 6. Beneficial ionizing radiation / Zbigniew Jaworowski
  • 7. Pollution, pesticides and cancer misconceptions / Bruce N. Ames and Lois S. Gold
  • 8. Interpretation of epidemiological studies with modestly elevated relative risks / Goran Pershagen
  • 9. The risks of dioxin to human health / Hans E. Muller
  • pt. III. SCIENCE POLICY
  • 10. Public policy and public health : coping with potential medical disaster / B.M. Craven and G.T. Stewart
  • 11. How are decisions taken by governments on environmental issues? / David Everest
  • pt. IV. COMMENTARIES
  • 12. Should we trust science? / Terence Kealey
  • 13. The proper role of science in determining low-dose hazard, and appropriate policy uses of this information / Fritz Vahrenholt
  • pt. V. PERCEPTION
  • 14. Mass media and environmental risk : seven principles / Peter M. Sandman
  • 15. Cars, cholera, cows, and contaminated land : virtual risk and the management of uncertainty / John Adams.

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