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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Main Author: Goldstein, Inge F.
Other Authors: Inge F. Goldstein; Martin Goldstein
Language:Undetermined
English
Published: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2002
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Institutions: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh
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Summary: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 factors and asthma, pesticides and breast cancer and leukemia clusters around nuclear plants are discussed, and how scientists assess these risks is illuminated. This book will enable readers to better understand environmental health issues, and with the proper scientific understanding, make informed, rational decisions about them
Physical Description:338 p.
ill.
24 cm
ISBN:0195139941
9780195139945