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The alchemy of disease : how chemicals and toxins cause cancer and other illnesses /
"Since the dawn of the industrial age, we have unleashed a bewildering number of potentially harmful chemicals. But out of the vast array of threats, how do we identify which actually endanger us? What does it take to prove that a certain chemical causes cancer? How do we translate academic kno...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- 1. Cancer clusters: truth can be obscure
- 2. Death from arsenic and venoms: truth can be obvious
- 3. Paracelsus: the alchemist at work
- 4. Mining and the beginnings of occupational medicine
- 5. The chemical age
- 6. The bioassay boom
- 7. Lead: a heavy metal weighing down the brain
- 8. Rachel Carson: Silent spring is now noisy summer
- 9. The study of cancer
- 10. How are carcinogens made?
- 11. Some carcinogens directly affect genes
- 12. Cancer caused by irritation
- 13. Cigarette smoking: black, tarry lungs
- 14. What causes cancer?
- 15. Protecting workers from chemical diseases
- 16. The importance of having a good name
- 17. Can we accurately regulate chemicals?
- 18. The dose makes the poison
- 19. Are we ready to clean up the mess?
- 20. Legal battles
- 21. The toxicology of war
- 22. Opiates and politics
- 23. The toxicology of climate change
- 24. Animal models for human disease
- 25. Are animal cancer bioassays reliable?
- 26. Hormone mimics and disrupters
- 27. Building better tools for testing
- 28. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.