ISBN10: 0195139941, ISBN13: 9780195139945, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Hardcover First Edition Hardcover. 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 bookwill enable readers to better understand environmental health issues, and with the proper scientific understanding, make informed, rational decisions about them. This book provides an assessment of the nature and actual level of risk to the public from environmental health hazards. The authors assess the risks of radiation from nuclear testing, nuclear power plants, radon in the home, electromagnetic fields and cancer, environmental factors in asthma, breast cancer clusters, and toxic waste dumps. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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