How Much Risk?: A Guide to Understanding Environmental Health HazardsAn 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 book will enable readers to better understand environmental health issues, and with the proper scientific understanding, make informed, rational decisions about them. |
Contents
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Atomic Bombs Nuclear Fallout and Dental XRays | 13 |
Radon in Your Basement | 59 |
Childhood Leukemia Near Nuclear Plants | 101 |
Breast Cancer Part 1 The Rise of Activism and the Pesticide Hypothesis | 135 |
Breast Cancer Part 2 Testing the Pesticide Hypothesis | 171 |
Power Lines Magnetic Fields and Cancer | 199 |
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