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Environmental medicine /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, England :
William Heinemann Medical Books Ltd,
1980.
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Environmental Medicine; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface to the Second Edition; Chapter 1. The Environment, Its Influences and Hazards to Health; LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HAZARDS AND INFLUENCES OF THE ENVIRONMENT; MAN'S INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT; Further Reading; Chapter 2. Some Trace Element Concentrations in Various Environments; INTRODUCTION; GEOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUNDS; THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND THE POPULATION EXPLOSION; CHANGING PATTERNS OF FOOD SUPPLY; REPORTED 'NORMAL' CONCENTRATIONS OF SELECTED TRACE ELEMENTS IN THE EARTH'S CRUST AND IN SOILS.
- Trace element contents of some urban soilstrace element contents of some urban dusts; industrial contamination; unexplained anomalous soils; trace element concentrations in mining areas; relationship between trace elements in wet, dry and ashed materials; 'normal' trace element content of some vegetables; abnormal or anomalousconcentrations of trace elements in vegetables; fertilisers as sources of contamination; variable relationships between trace elements in soils and vegetables; trace elements in the atmosphere; trace elements in water; trace elements in human diets.
- BIOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION OF TRACE ELEMENTSPOSSIBLE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TRACE ELEMENT IMBALANCES AND SOME DISEASES; SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Chapter 3. Radiation and Health Hazards; INTRODUCTION; NATURE OF RADIATION AND RADIOACTIVITY; SOMATIC EFFECTS OF RADIATION; GENETIC EFFECTS OF RADIATION; SOURCES OF RADIATION EXPOSURE; CONTROL OF EXPOSURE; STUDIES OF THE CANCER MORTALITY IN EXPOSED PERSONS; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 4. Water in Relation to Human Disease; DEPRIVATION OF WATER; DEPLETION OF ESSENTIAL CONSTITUENTS; CHEMICAL WATER POLLUTION.
- BACTERIAL POLLUTIONVIRAL POLLUTION; SPIROCHAETAL POLLUTION; PROTOZOAL POLLUTION; WATER-BORNE WORM INFESTATION; THE SEA; CONCLUSION; References; Chapter 5. The Relationship of Weather and Climate to Health and Disease; INTRODUCTION; BASIC METEOROLOGICAL CONCEPTS; PRINCIPAL CENTRES OF THE HUMAN BODY REGISTERING METEOROLOGICAL STIMULI, AND THE PHYSIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS INVOLVED; THE EFFECT OF METEOROLOGICAL STIMULI ON NORMAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN HEALTHY SUBJECTS; THE EFFECT OF WEATHER AND CLIMATE ON MISCELLANEOUS BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA IN MAN.
- THE EFFECT OF WEATHER AND CLIMATE ON HUMAN DISEASESTHERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS OF HUMAN BIOMETEOROLOGY; ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN APPLICATIONS OF BIOMETEOROLOGY; References; Chapter 6. Air Pollution in Relation to Human Disease; THE ACUTE URBAN AIR POLLUTION INCIDENT; THE EFFECTS OF PROLONGED EXPOSURE TO AIR POLLUTION; THE EFFECTS OF MOTOR EXHAUST FUMES; CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDES; HYDROCARBONS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS AND AIR POLLUTION; LEAD; OTHER POLLUTANTS; CONCLUSIONS; References; Chapter 7. The Ecological Approach to Pesticides and its Relevance to Human Disease; INTRODUCTION.