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

By Inge F. Goldstein , Martin Goldstein

Book information

Year
2002
ISBN
0195139941, 9780195139945, 9780195186215
Open Library ID
OL15976638M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1640230 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
352\353
Topic
Biology Ecology
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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