Clinical Environmental Health and Toxic ExposuresJohn Burke Sullivan, Gary R. Krieger Now in its revised and updated Second Edition, this volume is the most comprehensive and authoritative text in the rapidly evolving field of environmental toxicology. The book provides the objective information that health professionals need to prevent environmental health problems, plan for emergencies, and evaluate toxic exposures in patients.Coverage includes safety, regulatory, and legal issues; clinical toxicology of specific organ systems; emergency medical response to hazardous materials releases; and hazards of specific industries and locations. Nearly half of the book examines all known toxins and environmental health hazards. A Brandon-Hill recommended title. |
Contents
Automobile Airbag Hazards 489 60 Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Other Polyhalogenated | 36 |
Emerging Infectious Diseases 545 Michael J Lipsett | 42 |
Construction Industry Hazards 614 Donald M Molenaar Charles R Clark Charles E Lambert | 48 |
Contributing Authors ix 16 Clinical Pulmonary Toxicology | 206 |
Foreword by Charles E Becker M D xiii Lee S Newman | 223 |
Going into the TwentyFirst Toxicology | 247 |
Pollutant Fate and Transport in the Neal L Benowitz | 260 |
Principles of Environmental and Occupational Hazard Robert J Noecker | 281 |
Environmental Health Hazards of Business Industry | 431 |
Hazards of Wastewater Treatment Facilities Sewage and 74 Cadmium 889 | 636 |
Agricultural Hazards 648 75 Copper 898 Donald C Fisher | 648 |
Indoor Environmental Quality and Health | 669 |
Hydrogen Cyanide and Inorganic Cyanide Salts | 705 |
Hydrogen Sulfide | 716 |
Carbon Monoxide | 722 |
Aluminum 949 102 Fungicides and Biocides | 1109 |
Principles of Toxicology 49 23 Teratogenesis and Reproductive Toxicology | 289 |
Principles of Epidemiology 68 24 Carcinogenesis Mutagenesis and Genotoxicity | 299 |
Principles of Risk Assessment 77 John B Sullivan | 310 |
Laws and Regulations Regarding Hazardous Materials 93 Bridget T Walsh and David E Yocum | 362 |
Medical Surveillance and Medical Screening for Toxic Janet E Kester | 372 |
Personal Protection and Hazardous Materials 133 31 Psychological Sequelae of Hazardous Materials | 404 |
Radiation and Radioactive Emergencies 163 Intolerance | 412 |
Thallium 954 103 Pyrethrins | 1125 |
Oxidizers Reducing Agents and Other Highly Reactive John B Sullivan Jr and Mark D Van | 1166 |
Sodium Potassium and Lithium 984 Gary R Krieger and John B Sullivan | 1206 |
Formaldehyde 1006 Ken Kulig and Steven Pike | 1240 |
Biological Hazards Biotoxins and Toxigenic Fungi 1022 Donna L Dehn and John B Sullivan | 1266 |
Toxic Exposures and Environmental Health | 1284 |
Common terms and phrases
References to this book
Handbook of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Agent Exposures Jerrold B. Leikin,Robin B. McFee,Robert Kerscher No preview available - 2007 |