Health effects of environmental pollutants / George L. Waldbott
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TextPublication details: Saint Louis, Missouri : The C.V. Mosby Company, c1978Edition: Second EditionDescription: x, 350 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN: - 801653312
- RA 566 .W35 1978
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part One: Sources and actions of pollutants -- 1. Disasters -- 2. Pollutants and their sources -- 3. Dispersion of air pollutants -- 4. Recognition of pollutants -- 5. Toxic action of pollutants -- 6. The body's defenses -- 7. Pulmonary irritants -- Part Two: Health effects -- 8. Fibrosis-producing agents -- 9. Granuloma-producing agents -- 10. fever-producing agents -- 11. Asphyxiating pollutants -- 12. Systematic poisons -- 13. Systemic poisons -- 14. Systemic poisons -- 15. Allergenic agents -- 16. Carcinogens -- 17. Mutagenic pollutants -- 18. Economic poisons -- 19. Hydrocarbons -- 20. Pollution by radiation -- 21. Smoking -- 22. Water Pollution -- 23. Noise pollution -- 24. Fires -- 25. Prophylaxis and treatment -- Appendix -- Glossary.
The reduction of the the stratospheric ozone layer by fluorocarbon aerosols, the recognition of the carcinogenic property of vinyl chloride (probably the most widely used plastic), the polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) epidemic in Michigan, and the environment damage from fire-retarding agents are some of the new developments discussed in this revised edition.
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