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The Third wave of asbestos disease : exposure to asbestos in place : public health control

Title
The Third wave of asbestos disease : exposure to asbestos in place : public health control / edited by Philip J. Landrigan and Homayoun Kazemi.
Publication
New York : New York Academy of Sciences, 1991.

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Additional Authors
  • Landrigan, Philip J.
  • Kazemi, Homayoun, 1934-
Description
xvi, 628 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 0077-8923 ; v. 643
Uniform Title
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 643.
Subject
  • Asbestos > Health aspects > Congresses
  • Asbestos abatement > Congresses
  • Asbestos > adverse effects
  • Environmental Exposure > prevention & control
  • Asbestos abatement
  • Asbestos > Health aspects
Genre/Form
  • Congress
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Actes de congrès.
Note
  • Papers from the conference held in New York on June 6, 7, and 8, 1990, under the aegis of the Collegium Ramazzini.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also available in an electronic version.
Contents
Part I. The spectrum of asbestos-related disease -- Part II. Tissue burdens: What do they tell us? -- Part III. Dose-Response -- Part IV. Radiologic abnormalities: Recent developments -- Part V. Radiologic abnormalities: epidemiologic utilization -- Part VI. Physiological decrements due to asbestos exposure -- Part VII. Latency and progression -- Part VIII. The Neoplasms of asbestos exposure -- Part IX. The continuing search for basic mechanisms of asbestos effect -- Part X. Populations at risk: The construction industry -- Part XI. Other Populations at risk -- Part XII. Asbestos exposure of nonoccupational groups -- Part XIII. Mesothelioma, a "Signal Tumor", Part XIV. Chrysotile and/or tremolite -- Part XV. Asbestos in public buildings -- Part 16. Disease resulting from asbestos exposure in buildings -- Part 17. Asbestos abatement: proper and improper.
ISBN
  • 0897666771
  • 9780897666770
  • 089766678X
  • 9780897666787
LCCN
92006138
OCLC
  • ocm25372484
  • 25372484
  • SCSB-1428820
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library