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How much risk? : a guide to understanding environmental health hazards /

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 facto...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Goldstein, Inge F. (Autor), Goldstein, Martin, 1919-2014 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: what we hope to do
  • 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 landfill?
  • Asthma, allergy, and air pollution
  • Summary: lessons from a disaster.