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a guide to understanding environmental health hazards

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An edition of How much risk? (2002)

How much risk?

a guide to understanding environmental health hazards

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"How Much Risk? illustrates how scientists investigate controversial issues such as high rates of breast cancer attributed to pesticides, cancer clusters near toxic waste dumps and nuclear plants, and the recent worldwide increase in asthma. It explains in lay language the technical terms often appearing in news stories or government reports, such as statistical significance, ionizing radiation, and biological markers. It also describes how scientists distinguish a real cluster of disease from a chance event, the interaction of genetic predisposition and environment in disease, and how radiation can cause some types of cancer."--BOOK JACKET

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Oxford University Press
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English
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338

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Environmental health, Risk assessment, Environmentally induced diseases, Environmental Health, Risk Assessment, Ra566.27 .g65 2002, 363.17, 615.9/02
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How much risk?: a guide to understanding environmental health hazards
2002, Oxford University Press
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Cover of: How Much Risk?
How Much Risk?: A Guide to Understanding Environmental Health Hazards
2002, Ebsco Publishing
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How Much Risk?: A Guide to Understanding Environmental Health Hazards
2002, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction: what we hope to do
Atomic bombs, nuclear fallout, and dental x-rays
Radon in your basement
Childhood leukemia near nuclear plants
Breast cancer part 1: the rise of activism and the pesticide hypothesis
Breast cancer part 2: testing the pesticide hypothesis
Power lines, magnetic fields, and cancer
Cancer from the landfill?
Asthma, allergy, and air pollution
Summary: lessons from a disaster.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-324) and index.

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Oxford, New York

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Library of Congress
RA566.27 .G65 2002, RA566.27.G65 2002

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Pagination
xii, 338 p. :
Number of pages
338

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OL15976638M
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0195139941
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9780195139945
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2001021985
OCLC/WorldCat
45879545
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6686399
Goodreads
2595175

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