TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waldbott, George L.
TI  - Health effects of environmental pollutants
SN  - 801653312
AV  - RA 566 .W35 1978 
PY  - 1978///
CY  - Saint Louis, Missouri
PB  - The C.V. Mosby Company
KW  - POLLUTION -- TOXICOLOGY
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -