Research Catalog

Title

Environmental epidemiology : effects of environmental chemicals on human health / William M. Draper, editor.

Author

American Chemical Society. Meeting (203rd : 1992 : San Francisco, Calif.)

Publication

Washington, DC : American Chemical Society, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Draper, William M., 1952-
• American Chemical Society. Division of Environmental Chemistry.

Description

xii, 266 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Advances in chemistry series ; 241

Uniform Title

Advances in chemistry series ; 241.

Subject

• Environmental health > Congresses
• Environmental toxicology > Congresses
• Environmentally induced diseases > Epidemiology > Congresses

Note

• "Developed from a symposium sponsored by the Division of Environmental Chemistry, Inc., at the 203rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Francisco, California, April 5-10, 1992."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• 1. Assessing Environmental Risk - Scientifically Defensible or Fantasy? / Vernon N. Houk -- 2. The Epidemiological Method / Gary H. Spivey -- 3. Design Methods for Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology / Mary Fran Sowers -- 4. Interpreting Epidemiological Studies / George Maldonado -- 5. Environmental Epidemiology for Chemists / Curtis D. Klaassen and William C. Kershaw -- 6. Toxicology and Risk Assessment / Arthur L. Craigmill, Scott Wetzlich and William M. Draper -- 7. In Vitro and In Vivo Assays to Screen for Reproductive Toxicants in Animals and Humans / Barbara S. Shane -- 8. The Gene-Tox Program: Data Evaluation of Chemically Induced Mutagenicity / Michael C. Cimino and Angela E. Auletta -- 9. Biological, Biochemical, and Molecular Markers in Environmental Epidemiology / Marilyn F. Vine -- 10. Examples of Measuring Internal Dose for Assessing Exposure in Epidemiological Studies / Larry L. Needham.
• 11. Research Strategy for Assessing Human Health Risks from Exposure to DNA-Reactive Chemicals: 1,3-Butadiene as a Case Study / James A. Bond, Leslie Recio and Roger O. McClellan -- 12. Molecular Epidemiology of Acrylonitrile: Indicators of Health Risk by Worker Surveillance and Regiospecific Modification of Ha-ras Oncogene / John L. Wong, Bo Yuan, Peide Zhang and Carlo H. Tamburro -- 13. Estimation of Risk of Kidney Dysfunction from Exposure to Cadmium Using Studies of Occupationally Exposed Workers / Elizabeth A. Grossman and Caroline S. Freeman -- 14. Estimating Malathion Doses in California's Medfly Eradication Campaign Using a Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Model / Michael H. Dong, William M. Draper, Paul J. Papanek, Jr., John H. Ross, Kimberley A. Woloshin and Robert D. Stephens -- 15. An Epidemiological Assessment of the Cantara Metam Sodium Spill: Acute Health Effects and Methyl Isothiocyanate Exposure / Richard A. Kreutzer, David J. Hewitt and William M. Draper.
• 16. Access to Data for Epidemiological Studies / Ralph R. Cook, Sandra L. Tirey, Nanette W. Spadacene and Mary A. Woodbury -- 17. The Successes and Failures of Environmental Epidemiology / Raymond Richard Neutra.

ISBN

• 0841225176 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0841229333 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

94028456

OCLC

• 30780054
• ocm30780054

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries