Chemicals and life /
Kenneth E. Maxwell
- California : Dickenson Publishing Company, Inc., c1970
- ix, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Living molecules -- 2. Prevention of people -- 3. The spoilers -- 4. Mind modifiers -- 5. Gene and embryo -- 6. The rebellious cell: cancer's causes and cures -- 7. Nature's cures and killers -- 8. Life savers -- 9. Pests or people -- 10. Molecular war -- 11. Radiation roulette.
Many of humanity's most pressing problems involve the effects of chemical on living processes. The four horsemen of the space age, population, pollution, pestilence, and plutonium, are chemically dependent and in some measure chemically controlled.