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| Part I: Medicine in the Environmental Balance |
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Chapter 1 -- Issues and Challenges in Environmental Health |
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Chapter 2 -- The Environment: Our Mutual Concern |
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Chapter 3 -- Environmental Assault on Immunity |
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Chapter 4 -- Healing Environmental Health: Is There a Doctor in the House? |
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Chapter 5 -- What Is Environmental Medicine? |
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Chapter 6 -- Clinical Ecology: Unproven and Under Fire |
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| Part II: Outdoor Air Pollution |
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Chapter 7 -- Air Pollution and Your Health |
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Chapter 8 -- Measuring Air Quality: The Pollutant Standards Index |
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Chapter 9 -- Declining Air Quality Triggers More Attacks of Asthma |
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Chapter 10 -- Chemical Air Pollutants and Otorhinolaryngeal Toxicity |
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| Part III: Water Pollution |
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Chapter 11 -- Keeping Track: National Water Quality Inventory, 1994 Report to Congress |
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Chapter 12 -- Cryptosporidiosis: Diarrhea Inducing Parasite |
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Chapter 13 -- What's in the Water? The Disinfectant Dilemma |
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Chapter 14 -- Fluoridated Water and the Risk of Cancer |
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Chapter 15 -- Lead in Your Drinking Water |
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Chapter 16 -- Mercury: The Problem of Quicksilver |
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| Part IV: Indoor Pollution |
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Chapter 17 -- The Inside Story: A Guide to Indoor Air Quality |
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Chapter 18 -- Environmental Tobacco Smoke |
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Chapter 19 -- Formaldehyde: An Irritating Volatile Organic Compound |
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Chapter 20 -- Citizen's Guide to Radon |
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Chapter 21 -- Burning Up Your Air: Combustion Appliances and Indoor Air Pollution |
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Chapter 22 -- Asbestos in Your Home |
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245 | (12) |
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Chapter 23 -- Health Threats from Under the Sink: Household Products |
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Chapter 24 -- Protect Your Family from Lead in Your Home |
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Chapter 25 -- Sharing Your Air: Biological Pollutants in Your Home |
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Chapter 26 -- Taking a Breath at Work: Ventilation and Air Quality in Offices |
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Chapter 27 -- Sick Building Syndrome |
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Chapter 28 -- Beware the Fungus Among Us: Another View of Sick Building Syndrome |
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| Part V: Occupational Risks |
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Chapter 29 -- Playing it Safe at Work: Health Hazards in the Workplace |
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Chapter 30 -- Questions and Answers about Asbestos Exposure |
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Chapter 31 -- Occupational Risk of Cancer from Pesticides: Farmers' Tales |
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Chapter 32 -- Dangers in the Dust: Agricultural Environmental Hazards |
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Chapter 33 -- In Answer to Your Questions about Agent Orange |
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Chapter 34 -- The Persian Gulf Experience and Health |
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| Part VI: Chemicals and Poisons |
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Chapter 35 -- Citizen's Guide to Pesticides |
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Chapter 36 -- Conversations about Breast Cancer Risk and Environmental Exposures |
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Chapter 37 -- EDCD Is Becoming a Household Word |
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Chapter 38 -- Deciding about Dioxins: The Chlorine Debate |
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Chapter 39 -- Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: A Sensitive Issue |
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| Part VII: Radiation and Noise Pollution |
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Chapter 40 -- Noise: A Health Problem |
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Chapter 41 -- Electromagnetic Field Exposure and Cancer Studies |
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Chapter 42 -- Keeping Medical Devices Safe from Electromagnetic Interference |
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| Part VIII: Environmental Pollutants and Food |
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Chapter 43 -- Is It Worth the Worry? Determining Risk |
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Chapter 44 -- What's Eating Us about What We're Eating? |
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Chapter 45 -- High-Tech Tools for Food Safety Sleuths |
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Chapter 46 -- Chemicals We'd Rather Dine Without |
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Chapter 47 -- Perspectives on Food Biotechnology |
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Chapter 48 -- Food Irradiation: Toxic for Bacteria, Safe for Humans |
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Chapter 49 -- Artificial Sweeteners and Cancer: Cyclamate, Saccharine and Aspartame |
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Chapter 50 -- Bovine Growth Hormone: Harmless for Humans |
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Chapter 51 -- Consuming Lead with your Meal: Deadly Leaching from Dishes, Glasses and Mugs |
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Chapter 52 -- Pesticides in Food |
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Chapter 53 -- Human Breast Milk as a Potential Biological Hazard |
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| Part IX: Environmental Risks to Children |
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Chapter 54 -- Children-Unique and Vulnerable: Environmental Risks Facing Children and Recommendations for Response |
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Chapter 55 -- Growing Pains: Children in the Real Environment |
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| Part X: Global Concerns |
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Chapter 56 -- Anticipated Public Health Consequences of Global Climate Change |
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| Index |
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