How Everyday Products Make People Sick, Updated and Expanded: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace / Edition 1

by Paul D. Blanc

Overview

This book reveals the hidden health dangers in many of the seemingly innocent products we encounter every day—a tube of glue in a kitchen drawer, a bottle of bleach in the laundry room, a rayon scarf on a closet shelf, a brass knob on the front door, a wood plank on an outdoor deck. A compelling exposé, written by a physician with extensive experience in public health and illustrated with disturbing case histories, How Everyday Products Make People Sick is a rich and meticulously documented account of injury and illness across different time periods, places, and technologies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520261273
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	11/02/2009
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Paul D. Blanc is Professor of Medicine and holds the Endowed Chair in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

Editorial Reviews

A superbly researched and scholarly book that traces the history of the author’s selection of relatively well-known occupational hazards.

Occupational & Environmental Medicine