General and Applied Toxicology - Couverture rigide

Ballantyne, Bryan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1561592420 ISBN 13 : 9781561592425

Editeur : Nature Pub Group, 1999

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Bryan Ballantyne, MD, DSc, PhD, FFOM, FACOM, FAACT, FATS,FRCPath, FIBiol (deceased) was an IndependentConsultant inOccupational and Clinical Toxicology. Prior to that he held thepositions of: Director of Applied Toxicology for Union CarbideCorporation in Connecticut, USA; Senior Medical Officer and Head ofthe Section of Toxicology and Pathology at the UK Chemical DefenseEstablishment; Adjunct Professor of Toxicology at the University ofPittsburgh; and Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology atWest Virginia University. He was a Fellow of the Faculty ofOccupational Medicine, Royal College of Pathologists, Academy ofToxicological Sciences, and the Institute of Biology. He wasformerly a member of the Scientific Subcommittee on Pesticides ofthe Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, UK and of theCommittee of Experts on Pesticides, Council of Europe. He has beena member of the Council on Scientific Affairs of the AmericanCollege of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and of theBoard of Trustees of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology.Dr. Ballantyne was also the editor or co–editor of seven books ontoxicology and related areas and a member of the Editorial Board offi ve toxicology journals, including Toxicology Methods,Forensic Science International, and the Journal of AppliedToxicology.

Timothy Marrs, MD, DSc, MRCP, FRCPath, FIBiol is aconsulting toxicologist for Edentox. He was formerly chieftoxicologist at the Food Standards Agency in London, and beforethat Senior Medical Offi cer at the Department of Health. Previousto that, he was Senior Medical Offi cer (Research) at the ChemicalDefence Establishment, Porton Down. He is also consulting clinicaltoxicologist at the West Midlands Poisons Unit in Birmingham. He isa Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, Royal College ofPhysicians of London and of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences.He has also been the editor of a number of books including,Organophosphates and Health and most recently ChemicalWarfare Agents Toxicology and Treatment. He has written anumber of papers on toxicology and allied subjects. He is a memberof a number of government committees.

Tore Syversen, MSc, DrPhil is Professor of Pharmacologyand Toxicology at the Norwegian University of Science andTechnology Trondheim, Norway. He has been professor of toxicologyat NTNU since 1977 and has been engaged in the teaching oftoxicology to students of medicine, natural sciences andtechnology. His main research interest has been metals in health,nutrition as well as in occupational medicine and environmentalsciences. Current interests also include using cell cultures formechanism studies as well as the health challenges introduced bynanoparticles.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Encompassing 150 articles written by leading scientists in thefield, the third edition of General and Applied Toxicology provides a comprehensive and in–depth review of the basic scienceof toxicology, its specializations, and the application oftoxicological knowledge. This new edition reflects developments within the field thathave taken place since the second edition was published in1999.  These include:   New information developed in the areas of both the fundamentaland applied aspects of toxicology Considerable increase in the development of fundamentalinformation and its applications, refinement of technical methods,advances in mechanistic toxicology, and greater interest in areasof toxicology previously regarded as of limited scope Changing approaches to methodological, interpretative,regulatory, and ethical aspects of basic and appliedtoxicology General and Applied Toxicology, 3 rd Edition isthe first port of call for academic researchers, industrialresearchers, regulatory professionals, and advanced studentslooking for timely and authoritative information in the field. Dueto the increase in public and media interest in exposure to toxicsubstances, this provides an indispensable general reference sourcefor general physicians, lawyers, law enforcement agencies,information resource facilities, and members of the generalpublic. New online resource available now! In 2011, the content from the third edition of General andApplied Toxicology  merged with the two–volume Handbookof Systems Toxicology . The result?  General,Applied and Systems Toxicology  – a new onlineresource combining traditional toxicology with the latestdevelopments to present the ultimate reference in toxicology! For full details visit wileyonlinelibrary.com/ref/gast   

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nature Pub Group
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1561592420
• ISBN 13: 9781561592425
• Reliure: Relié
• Éditeur: Marrs Timothy C., Syversen Tore
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible