Environmental medicine

A decade after publication of the first edition, Handbook of Venoms and Toxins of Reptiles responds to extensive changes in the field of toxinology to endure as the most comprehensive review of reptile venoms on the market.

An updated edition of this popular textbook, covering recognition, biology, ecology and medical importance of the arthropods that affect human health.

Despite its frequency and its potential severity, preventable medical harm is still prominent in American hospitals and continues to put an alarming amount of lives at risk, being the third leading cause of death in the United States.

Design for Wellbeing charts the development and application of design research to improve the personal and societal wellbeing and happiness of people.

Provides an advanced level of study of industrial hygiene engineering situations with emphasis on the control of exposure to occupational health hazards.

This timely volume provides an up-to-date and comprehensive summary about what is known about aging and work and addresses the challenges and opportunities confronting older workers and organizations.

Excerpt from Conference Address One of the most complex and significant social issues facing our nation is reform of our national health system.

This book highlights the role fungi play in bioremediation, as well as the mechanisms and enzymes involved in this process.

Although urban allotment gardening dates back to the nineteenth century, it has recently undergone a renaissance of interest and popularity.

This book highlights the potential of school farms to fight hunger and malnutrition by providing access to locally produced, fresh, and healthy food as well as providing young students with educational opportunities to learn, interact with nature, and develop their skills.

This book explains how the U.

Updated throughout for this new edition, Water Distribution System Monitoring describes the latest water quality monitoring approaches, techniques, and equipment that will assist water utilities for compliance with the "e;Lead and Copper Rule"e; as well as address numerous other water quality issues.

Thoroughly updated and revised, this second edition of the bestselling Soil Sampling and Methods of Analysis presents several new chapters in the areas of biological and physical analysis and soil sampling.

Networks in Tropical Medicine explores how European doctors and scientists worked together across borders to establish the new field of tropical medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

In recent years, the pervasive presence of microplastics in the environment has emerged as a pressing global concern.

This book provides a critical overview of analytical methods used for the determination of pesticide residues and other contaminants in food and environmental samples by modern instrumental analysis.

Global Health continues to provide readers with a comprehensive, up-to-date and thought-provoking outline and understanding of the constantly evolving global health landscape.

At no other time in human existence have there been so many environmental changes.

Renewable fuel research and process development requires interdisciplinary approaches involving chemists and physicists from both scientific and engineering backgrounds.

Chiral Organic Pollutants introduces readers to the growing challenges of chirality in synthetic chemicals.

This book presents original research findings of The Million Person Study of Low-Dose Radiation Health Effects (MPS), the largest and most comprehensive epidemiologic study of its kind to investigate the health effects of low-level chronic radiation exposure on American workers and veterans throughout the 20th century.

Formaldehyde is virtually ubiquitous in the modern environment due to its cost-effective nature, its use in resin formation, and its preservative properties.

The presence of concentrations of organic substances and cations in seawater is a matter of increasing concern to the water industry, environmentalists and the general public alike.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this new volume brings together innovative research, new concepts, and novel developments in the application of new tools in green chemistry and sustainable technology.

This comprehensive handbook provides an authoritative source of information on global water and health, suitable for interdisciplinary teaching for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Introduction to Environmental Toxicology is designed as a concise text, introducing students to the fundamentals of this important subject.

This unique volume presents an up-to-date review of one of the world's major health problems - diseases caused by the four dengue viruses.

From the PrefaceAntibody techniques have allowed us to study microorganisms in situ.

The baby boom generation were born between 1946 and 1964 and are the largest population cohort in US history.

This revised and updated new edition of a successful book is a multidisciplinary, comprehensive guide to occupational factors of malignant diseases.

A wide-ranging compilation of techniques, Extrapolation Practice for Ecotoxicological Effect Characterization of Chemicals describes methods of extrapolation in the framework of ecological risk assessment.

A decade after publication of the first edition, Handbook of Venoms and Toxins of Reptiles responds to extensive changes in the field of toxinology to endure as the most comprehensive review of reptile venoms on the market.

In order to assess the health and environmental effects of a chemical, you need to determine the exposure of the chemical to sensitive organisms as well as to assess the likely effects.

Planetary Health - the idea that human health and the health of the environment are inextricably linked - encourages the preservation and sustainability of natural systems for the benefit of human health.

This insightful book addresses recovery as a comprehensive concept for prevention of health-threats in modern societies through active lifestyles.

Meat and dairy production and consumption are in crisis.

How can biological markers help assess and predict human health risks?

Volume 3: Conveniently gathering up-to-date information on herbicides' chemistry, degradation, and mode of action in one source, this reference discusses glyphosatc and the traits that have made it so successful .

Environmental Chemistry in the Lab presents a comprehensive approach to modern environmental chemistry laboratory instruction, together with a complete experimental experience.

Environmental Sampling for Unknowns covers modern approaches to indoor and outdoor environmental sampling, with an emphasis on identifying unknown substances.

Technological development has not only provided mankind with more prosperity, but with increased destructive power as well.

Growing interest in the field of mental health in the workplace among policy makers, clinicians, and researchers alike has been fueled by equal employment rights legislation and increasing disability statistics in mental heath.

Man-made toxins affect our health, safety, and lives: this book plots an empowering, hopeful path to a safer, cleaner world.

Reaction Mechanisms in Environmental Organic Chemistry classifies and organizes the reactions of environmentally important organic compounds using concepts and data drawn from traditional mechanistic and physical organic chemistry.

This book is devoted to the problems of oxidation chemical reactions and addresses bimodal reaction sequences.

Although asbestos was once considered a miracle mineral, today even the word itself has ominous implications for all strata of our society.

In anaesthetist Dr Kevin Fong's television programmes he has often demonstrated the impact of extremes on the human body by using his own body as a 'guinea pig'.

This pre-eminent work has developed over six editions in response to man's attempts to climb higher and higher unaided, and to spend more time at altitude for both work and recreation.

Biological materials and their applications have drawn increasing attention among scientists.