Modern Poisons A Brief Introduction to Contemporary Toxicology /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Kolok, Alan S. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2016.
• Θέματα: Earth sciences.; Environmental sciences.; Biochemistry.; Earth Sciences.; Environmental Science and Engineering.; Biochemistry, general.

This book explains basic principles in plain language while illuminating the most important issues in contemporary toxicology. The author begins by exploring age-old precepts of the field such as the dose-response relationship and the concept, first introduced by Ambroise Paré in the sixteenth centu...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• 1. Dose Makes the Poison
• 2. Nature of a Chemical
• 3. The Human Animal
• 4. Chemical Journeys: Absorption
• 5. Bodily Defense
• 6. Wider Journeys: Pollution
• 7. Travelling Particles
• 8. Toxins, Poisons, and Venoms
• 9. Metals: Gift and Curse
• 10. Combustion
• 11. Drugs and the Toxicology of Addiction
• 12. 70,000 Years of Pesticides
• 13. Origins of Regulation
• 14. Legislating for Health
• 15. POPS and Silent Spring
• 16. Toxic Toiletries
• 17. Determining Sex: Chemicals and Reproduction
• 18. The Earliest Exposure: Transgenerational Toxicology
• 19. Natural Toxins Revisited
• 20. Chemical Resistance
• Afterword: Toxicology and Beyond
• References.