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This work on environmental medicine specifically covers diseases of the respiratory system caused by environmental contaminants and pollution problems, such as air and land pollution, toxic waste disposal and radiation.
| ISBN | 0442008473 | | Pages | 619 | | ISBN13 | 9780442008475
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 001 | | Publisher | VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD/ JOHN WILEY & SONS /THOMSON LEARNING (KY) | | Weight (grammes) | 1507 | | Imprint | J A MAJORS (VIRTUAL) | | Published in | London | | Format | Hardback | | Series ISSN | 0000 | | Publication date | 01 Jan 1995 | | Height (mm) | 262 | | Library of Congress | 94020804 | | Width (mm) | 188 | | DEWEY | 616.2 | |
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| | | Foreword by Gregory R. Wagner | | | | | | Preface | | | | Ch. 1 | | From Workplace to the General Environment: An Overview by Carl Zenz and Juan Antonio Legaspi Velasco and Stephen L. Demeter and Edward M. Cordasco, Sr. | | 1 | | Ch. 2 | | Epidemiology of Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases by Frits van der Kuyp and John S. Suen | | 21 | | Ch. 3 | | Defense Mechanisms of the Respiratory System by Stephen L. Demeter and Daniel J. Pipoly and Peter H. Koo | | 39 | | Ch. 4 | | Toxic Inhalation: Diffuse Alveolar Injury and Pulmonary Edema by Tee L. Guidotti | | 85 | | Ch. 5 | | Pulmonary Function Testing and Environmental Pollution by Kevin McCarthy and Joseph A. Goush | | 115 | | Ch. 6 | | The Relationship of Occupational to Environmental Respiratory Diseases by Edward M. Cordasco, Sr. and Carl Zenz | | 141 | | Ch. 7 | | Toxic Pulmonary Edema: Clinical Aspects by Edward M. Cordasco, Sr. and Stephen L. Demeter | | 159 | | Ch. 8 | | Indoor Air Quality and Building-Associated Outbreaks by Robert E. Rogers and Tee L. Guidotti | | 179 | | Ch. 9 | | Air Pollution Epidemiology: Principles and Examples of Respiratory Effects Studies by Marko Saric and Eugenija Zuskin | | 209 | | Ch. 10 | | Asbestos Problems: Environmental and Occupational Aspects by William J. Nicholson | | 229 | | Ch. 11 | | Fire Smoke Inhalation by Donald G. Burns and Edward M. Cordasco, Sr. | | 251 | | Ch. 12 | | Respiratory Health Risks in Agriculture by K. J. Musgrave and M. A. McCawley | | 263 | | Ch. 13 | | Environmental Allergens and the Development of Chronic and Allergic Obstructive Lung Diseases by Mary Kay O'Rourke and Michael D. Lebowitz | | 295 | | Ch. 14 | | Sources of Ionizing Radiation and Their Effects on Humans by William J. MacIntyre and Gopal B. Saha | | 337 | | Ch. 15 | | The Health Risk of Radon From an EPA Perspective by Susan M. Conrath and Anita L. Schmidt and Jerome S. Puskin | | 349 | | | More... | | | | | | Index | | 599 |
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