How Much Risk?: A Guide to Understanding Environmental Health Hazards / Edition 1

by Inge F. Goldstein, Martin Goldstein

Overview

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 leukemia clusters around nuclear plants are discussed, and how scientists assess 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195139945
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/03/2002
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Columbia University

Yeshiva University (Retired)

Table of Contents

Preface1. Introduction: What We Hope to Do2. Atomic Bombs, Nuclear Fallout, and Dental X-Rays3. Radon in Your Basement4. Childhood Leukemia Near Nuclear Plants5. Breast Cancer, Part 1: The Rise of Activism and the Pesticide Hypothesis6. Breast Cancer, Part 2: Testing the Pesticide Hypothesis7. Power Lines, Magnetic Fields, and Cancer8. Cancer from the Landfill? 9. Asthma, Allergy, and Air Pollution10. Summary: Lessons from a DisasterBibliographyIndex

Editorial Reviews

"The main intention of this book is to explain to a wide audience key concepts in environmental health, particularly environmental epidemiology, by using several high-profile issues as illustrations....These chapters were developed logically, with progressive construction of a framework of basic epidemiologic concepts, such as confounding, selection bias, statistical significance and power, confidence intervals, multiple comparisons, and casual inference criteria."—American Journal of Epidemiology

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