Research Catalog

Title

Generations at risk : reproductive health and the environment / Ted Schettler [and others].

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Schettler, Ted.

Description

xviii, 417 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Generations at Risk presents compelling evidence that human exposure to some toxic chemicals can have lifelong and even intergenerational effects on human reproduction and development. The result of a collaboration involving public health professionals, physicians, environmental educators, and environmental advocates, this book examines how scientific, social, economic, and political systems may fail to protect us from environmental and occupational toxicants. It is sourcebook for those concerned about their own health and that of their loved ones, as well as for medical and public health workers, community activists, policymakers, and industrial decision makers."--Jacket.

Subject

• Reproductive toxicology
• Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects
• Environmental Exposure > adverse effects
• Hazardous Substances > adverse effects
• Reproduction > physiology
• Pregnancy Complications > chemically induced
• Fetal Diseases > chemically induced
• Teratogens > toxicity
• Reproductive toxicology
• Reproduktionstoxikologie
• Toxicologie
• Gevaarlijke stoffen
• Ecologische aspecten

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-396) and index.

Contents

I. Understanding and using the science: reproductive physiology and toxicology. Chapter 1: Reproductive and developmental physiology ; hormones, hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal system, the ovaries, the testes, normal fetal development, how toxicants can affect reproduction and development, principles of abnormal development -- Chapter 2: Role of science in public health decisions ; the scientific method and the issue of proof, animal toxicology, epidemiology, quantitative risk assessment, reexamining scientific tools. II. Reproductive and developmental effects of selected substances and human exposures. Chapter 3: Metals ; lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic, manganese -- Chapter 4: Organic solvents ; reproductive and developmental effects in humans, solvent profiles -- Chapter 5: Pesticides ; active ingredients and "inerts", pesticides fate and transport, exposure to pesticides, reproductive and developmental toxicity of pesticides, pesticide profiles -- Chapter 6: Endocrine disruptors ; mechanisms of action, health effects of endocrine disruptors, endocrine disruptor profiles -- Chapter 7: Human exposures to reproductive toxicants ; data sources relevant to human exposure, data relevant to human exposure to reproductive toxicants, relevance of exposure information. III. A guide to investigating environmental threats to reproduction. Chapter 8: The regulation of hazardous chemicals and your right to know ; regulatory responsibility, informed consent and the right-to-know, twentieth-century seminal events relating to toxic chemicals -- Chapter 9: Taking action: how to assess reproductive threats at home, in the community, and in the workplace ; common routes of exposure, source of information, home survey to assess threats, community assessment, workplace assessment, consulting a physician, conclusion -- Chapter 10: Primer for the clinician ; occupational and environmental history, how to obtain more information, follow-up -- Chapter 11: Reflections and recommendations ; science: fragmentation and political influence, soundness of science, right to know, integrated public health approach, redefining goals.

ISBN

• 0262194139
• 9780262194136
• 0262692473
• 9780262692472

LCCN

98032432

OCLC

• ocm40443995
• 40443995
• SCSB-822177

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library