Research Catalog

Title

Water contamination and health : integration of exposure assessment, toxicology, and risk assessment / edited by Rhoda G.M. Wang.

Publication

New York : Dekker, c1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

Wang, Rhoda G. M., 1947-

Description

xiv, 524 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• This practical reference examines every potential means of exposure to water contaminants, provides in-depth discussion on toxicology, explains the most up-to-date techniques for evaluating human health risk, and develops a methodology for assessing the cumulative absorbed dose of contaminants through all routes of exposure, including ingestion, inhalation, and dermal.
• Covering both federal and state efforts to monitor and treat water and discussing water safety regulations, Water Contamination and Health addresses indoor exposure to radon from water sources and exposure to chloroform in swimming pools ... highlights epidemiology, including the need to determine the actual correlation between chemical exposure and human health effects ... emphasizes the internal dose concept using a physiologically based pharmacokinetic model ... furnishes a case study on spontaneous abortion in pregnant women who were exposed to a specific chemical from a contaminated well ... explores the potential existence of carcinogens in water for human consumption ... and much more!

Series Statement

Environmental science and pollution control series ; 9

Uniform Title

Environmental science and pollution control series ; 9.

Subjects

• Water > Pollution > Health aspects
• Water > Pollution > Health aspects > United States
• Water > Toxicology
• United States
• Water Intoxication
• Health risk assessment
• Water Pollution

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. A Retrospective on Drinking Water / Charles O. Abernathy -- 2. Chemicals in California Drinking Water: Source of Contamination, Risk Assessment, and Drinking Water Standards / Richard H. F. Lam, Joseph P. Brown and Anna M. Fan -- 3. Reactions of Drinking Water Contaminants with Aqueous Chlorine and Monochloramine / Frank E. Scully, Jr., William N. White and Robert S. Boethling -- 4. Chemical Monitoring of California's Public Drinking Water Sources: Public Exposures and Health Impacts / David L. Storm -- 5. Benefits of Deriving Drinking Water Standards Based on Comprehensive Assessments of Exposure / Robert R. Vanderslice -- 6. Chloroform Exposure and the Body Burden Associated with Swimming in Chlorinated Pools / Clifford P. Weisel and Theresa A. Shepard -- 7. Percutaneous Absorption of Chemicals from Water Simulating Swimming and Bathing and from Vapor Exposure / Ronald C. Wester and Howard I. Maibach.
• 8. A Comparison of Two Pathways to Human for Radon from Drinking Water: Inhalation and Ingestion / C. T. Hess and L. E. Haskell -- 9. Unified Approach to Dose and Risk Estimation for All Routes of Exposure to Radon in Water / Douglas J. Crawford-Brown -- 10. Use of Pharmacokinetic Models to Estimate Internal Doses from Exposure / Jerry N. Blancato and Nancy Chiu -- 11. Pharmacokinetic Interactions of Drinking Water Contaminants / Ronald Brown, Jerry N. Blancato and David Young -- 12. Need for Physiologically Based Toxicokinetic Models in Estimating Target Organ Dosage Following Oral Ingestion of Cadmium / John M. Frazier -- 13. Estimating Dermal and Inhalation Exposure to Volatile Chemicals in Domestic Water / John Schaum, Kim Hoang, Russell Kinerson, Jackie Moya and Rhoda G. M. Wang -- 14. Percutaneous Absorption of Dilute Aqueous Chlorinated Organic Solvents in the Hairless Guinea Pig / Kenneth T. Bogen, Bill W. Colston, Jr. and Lesia K. Machicao.
• 15. Predictive Model for Dermal Exposure Assessment / Annette L. Bunge, Gordon L. Flynn and Richard H. Guy -- 16. Establishing Concepts and Developing Methodologies in Dealing with Various Routes to Exposure to Water Contaminants: Dose Versus Health Risk / Rhoda G. M. Wang and Ronald C. Wester -- 17. Estimating Human Health Risks for Trichloroethylene, a Water Contaminant, Using Physiological Models / Jeffrey W. Fisher -- 18. Risk Assessment Based on Data from the Toxic Chemical Release Inventory / Andrew Battin, Nancy Chiu and James Darr -- 19. Empirical Comparisons of Carcinogen Potencies Across Species and Their Bearing on Appropriate Scaling of Doses for Risk Assessment / Lorenz Rhomberg -- 20. Modeling Risks from Water Contaminants: The Application of Concentration-Response Models / A. John Bailer and Christopher J. Portier -- 21. Problematic Risk Assessments for Drinking Water Contaminants: Selenium, Aldicarb, and Nickel / Susan F. Velazquez and Kenneth A. Poirier.
• 22. Are There Carcinogens in Water for Human Consumption? An Epidemiologist's Viewpoint / Arthur O. S. Chiu and David L. Bayliss.

ISBN

0824789229

LCCN

93048586

OCLC

• 29565685
• ocm29565685
• SCSB-4724723

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries