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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Boston :
Butterworth-Heinemann,
1997.
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| Edición: | Rev ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a What risk? / |c edited by Roger Bate. |
| 250 | |a Rev ed. | ||
| 260 | |a Oxford ; |a Boston : |b Butterworth-Heinemann, |c 1997. | ||
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (xxi, 328 pages) : |b illustrations | ||
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| 500 | |a "Science, politics & public health"--Cover subtitle | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g pt. I. |t METHODOLOGY -- |g 1. |t Thresholds for carcinogens : a review of the relevant science and its implications for regulatory policy / |r James D. Wilson -- |g 2. |t Biases introduced by confounding and imperfect retrospective and prospective exposure assessments / |r Alvan R. Feinstein -- |g 3. |t Problems with very low dose risk evaluation : the case of asbestos / |r Etienne Fournier and Marie-Louise Efthymiou -- |g pt. II. |t SCIENCE -- |g 4. |t Benzene and leukaemia / |r J. Munby and D.F. Weetman -- |g 5. |t Is environmental tobacco smoke a risk factor for lung cancer? / |r Robert Nilsson -- |g 6. |t Beneficial ionizing radiation / |r Zbigniew Jaworowski -- |g 7. |t Pollution, pesticides and cancer misconceptions / |r Bruce N. Ames and Lois S. Gold -- |g 8. |t Interpretation of epidemiological studies with modestly elevated relative risks / |r Goran Pershagen -- |g 9. |t The risks of dioxin to human health / |r Hans E. Muller -- |g pt. III. |t SCIENCE POLICY -- |g 10. |t Public policy and public health : coping with potential medical disaster / |r B.M. Craven and G.T. Stewart -- |g 11. |t How are decisions taken by governments on environmental issues? / |r David Everest -- |g pt. IV. |t COMMENTARIES -- |g 12. |t Should we trust science? / |r Terence Kealey -- |g 13. |t The proper role of science in determining low-dose hazard, and appropriate policy uses of this information / |r Fritz Vahrenholt -- |g pt. V. |t PERCEPTION -- |g 14. |t Mass media and environmental risk : seven principles / |r Peter M. Sandman -- |g 15. |t Cars, cholera, cows, and contaminated land : virtual risk and the management of uncertainty / |r John Adams. |
| 520 | |a 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 concerned with these issues - both policy makers and the public who may be subject to their decisions - to understand the basis on which 'risk' policy is made. The principle objective of this book is to highlight the uncertainties inherent in 'scientific' estimates of risk to the public and the environment resulting from exposure to certain hazards. Numerous examples of potential and real hazards are given. They all show that injury to personal health or the environment is a function not only of the toxicity (i.e. the lethality of a particular hazard) but of the level of exposure to the hazard concerned - in the words of the old maxim, the dose makes the poison. Existing regulation is criticized for being based on a flawed application of a poor epidemiological methodology, where toxicity is the basis of regulation and dose tends to be ignored. Furthermore, some authors conclude that risk is a subjective phenomenon that cannot be eliminated through regulation. Leading international expert authors and contributors. Mass-media launch on publication Important new commercial and H & S area of interest. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Environmental toxicology. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Health risk assessment. | |
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| 650 | 2 | |a Ecotoxicology |0 (DNLM)D054750 | |
| 650 | 6 | |a �Ecotoxicologie. |0 (CaQQLa)201-0287032 | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Risques pour la sant�e |x �Evaluation. |0 (CaQQLa)201-0023880 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a MEDICAL |x Toxicology. |2 bisacsh | |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Bate, Roger. | |
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