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Introduction
01 Cancer
02 Ozone
03 Urban air
04 Air pollutants
05 Blue-green algae
06 Water mutagens
07 Contamination
08 Chernobyl
09 Radon
10 Medical geology
11 Renal hazards
12 Organohalogens
13 Estrogens
14 Food hazards
15 Mycotoxins
16 Poisoning
17 Genetics
18 Risk

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Environmental Medicine Book

Written by internationally well-known scientists, including a Nobel Prize winner
327 pages, printed in color, 306 photographs, illustrations and tables
Editor: Associate Professor Lennart Möller

Environmental Medicine deals with environmental risk factors and human health. This is related to all of us since we are all exposed to air to breathe, water to drink, food and beverages. The risk factors can be of many different kinds like radioactivity, chemicals or ultra-violet radiation from the sun. Many of the risk factors could be avoided or reduced with the knowledge that they exist and what the risk situations are.

In this book you will find a number of scientists and physicians who are involved in research and human health care. They want to transfer their knowledge to students, decision makers and people interested in these matters which is the reason why the book is in a form of popularized science with many illustrations and photographs.

The 18 chapters deal with the process of cancer, genetics, air pollution, atmospheric chemistry, UV-radiation, allergens, algae toxins, water and soil contamination of mutagens and metals, the Chernobyl accident, radon, acidification, metal toxicity, organic chlorinated hydrocarbons, endocrine disruptors, food mutagens, mycotoxins, acute poisoning and risk perception.

The authors are from Karolinska Institutet (the Medical University of Stockholm) in Sweden, MIT and Harvard Medical School in Boston, US Environmental Protection Agency, US National Cancer Institute and University of California. Further, Huddinge University Hospital, The Agricultural University, National Veterinary Institute, The Geological Survey and Lund University of Sweden are represented, together with The South African Medical Research Council and Carleton University of Canada.

One author, professor M.J. Molina from MIT, received the Nobel Prize 1995 for his and his colleagues' research in atmospheric chemistry.

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