How Much Risk?: A Guide to Understanding Environmental Health Hazards - Couverture rigide

Goldstein, Inge F.; Goldstein, Martin

 
9780195139945: How Much Risk?: A Guide to Understanding Environmental Health Hazards
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0195139941 ISBN 13 : 9780195139945
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2002

Synopsis

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 leukaemia clusters around nuclear plants are discussed and how scientists assesa 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.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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 leukaemia clusters around nuclear plants are discussed and how scientists assesa 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.

Revue de presse

... an interesting, scientifically faultless book written in language that an intelligent secondary school graduate can understand ... This is a well-balanced and enjoyable book that has increased my understanding of environmental risks and their assessment. (Family Practice)

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0195139941
ISBN 13 
9780195139945
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
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