How much risk? : a guide to understanding environmental health hazards.

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2001Description: xii, 338 pISBN:

0195139941 (hc)

DDC classification:

615.902 21

Subject: This book illustrates how scientists investigate controversial issues such as high rates of breast cancer attributed to pestidices, 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

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This book illustrates how scientists investigate controversial issues such as high rates of breast cancer attributed to pestidices, 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

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