Research Catalog

Title

Geology and health : closing the gap / edited by H. Catherine W. Skinner and Antony R. Berger.

Author

Skinner, H. Catherine W.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

Berger, Antony R.

Description

xi, 179 p. : ill., maps; 29 cm.

Subjects

• Geology > Health aspects
• Environmentally induced diseases
• Medical geography
• Environmental Health
• Geography
• Environmental Illness
• Environmental health

Note

• "With assistance from the International Union of Geological Sciences and the International Geological Correlation Programme."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 8. Biogeochemical Cycling of Iodine and Selenium and Potential Geomedical Relevance / Eiliv Steinnes -- 9. Environmental Iodine in Iodine Deficiency Disorders, with a Sri Lankan Example / Fiona M. Fordyce, Chris C. Johnson, Chandra B. Dissanayake and Udaya R. B. Navaratne -- 10. Mercury, a Toxic Metal, and Dental Amalgam Removal / U. Lindh, S.-O. Grondquist, B. Carlmark and A. Lindvall -- 11. Nuclear Accumulation of Mercury in Neutrophil Granulocytes Associated with Exposure from Dental Amalgam / A. Lindvall, A. Danersund, R. Hudecek and U. Lindh -- 12. Cadmium Accumulation in Browse Vegetation, Alaska - Implications for Animal Health / L. P. Gough, J. G. Crock and W. C. Day -- 13. Molybdenosis Leading to Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Swedish Moose / Adrian Frank -- Pt. II. Anthropogenic Changes to the Geologic Environment -- 14. Surface and Groundwater Quality and Health, with a Focus on the United Kingdom / Colin Neal --
• 15. Breast and Prostate Cancer: Sources and Pathways of Endocrine-disrupting Chemicals / Jane A. Plant and Devra L. Davis -- 16. A Legacy of Empires? An Exploration of the Environmental and Medical Consequences of Metal Production in Wadi Faynan, Jordan / John Grattan, Alan Condron, Sharon Taylor, Louis Abu Karaki, F. Brian Pyatt, David D. Gilbertson and Ziad al Saad -- 17. Life in a Copper Province / Eleanora I. Robbins and Michalann Harthill -- 18. Health Problems Related to Environmental Fibrous Minerals / Gunnar Hillerdal -- 19. Anthropogenic Distribution of Lead / H. W. Mielke, C. Gonzales, E. Powell, Sabina Coty and Aila Shah -- Pt. III. Identifying the Hazards -- 20. Environmental Geochemistry on a Global Scale / Jane A. Plant, David Smith, Barry Smith and Shaun Reeder -- 21. Biogeochemical Monitoring in Medical Geology / O. Selinus -- 22. Some Environmental Problems of Geomedical Relevance in East and Southern Africa / T. C. Davies --
• 23. Geochemistry and Vertebrate Bones / H. Catherine W. Skinner -- 24. Soil Nutrient Deficiencies in an Area of Endemic Osteoarthritis (Mseleni Joint Disease) and Dwarfism in Maputoland, South Africa / Portia O. Ceruti, Martin Fey and Justin Pooley -- 25. Minerals in Human Blood Vessels and Their Dissolution in Vitro / Maciej Pawlikowski -- 26. Organic Compounds Derived from Pliocene Lignite and the Etiology of Balkan Endemic Nephropathy / Calin A. Tatu, William H. Orem, Susan V. M. Maharaj, Robert B. Finkelman, Dorina Diaconita, Gerald L. Feder, Diana N. Szilagyi, Victor Dumitrascu and Virgil Paunescu.
• Pt. I. Natural Geologic Hazards -- 1. Linking Health To Geology / Antony R. Berger -- A. Physical - Obvious and Immediate -- 2. Natural Dust and Pneumoconiosis in High Asia / Edward Derbyshire -- 3. Human Sickness and Mortality Rates in Relation to the Distant Eruption of Volcanic Gases: Rural England and the 1783 Eruption of the Laki Fissure, Iceland / John Grattan, Michael Durand, David Gilbertson and F. Brian Pyatt -- B. Chemical - "Silent" and Long Term -- 4. Human Geophagy: A Review of Its Distribution, Causes, and Implications / Peter W. Abrahams -- 5. Geogenic Arsenic and Associated Toxicity Problems in the Groundwater-Soil-Plant-Animal-Human Continuum / R. Naidu and P. R. Nadebaum -- 6. Geological Epidemiology: Coal Combustion in China / Robert B. Finkelman, Harvey E. Belkin, Jose A. Centeno and Zheng Baoschan -- 7. Mitigation of Endemic Arsenocosis with Selenium: An Example from China / Wang Wuyi, Yang Linsheng, Hou Shaofan and Tan Jian'an --

ISBN

0195162048 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2002032955
• R0-360433

OCLC

• ocm50693378
• SCSB-4796156

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries