Essentials of toxic chemical risk : science and society
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Stephen Penningroth
- ناشر : Boca Raton : CRC Press
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2010
- شابک / ISBN : 9780203022627
Description
Toxic chemical risk as science and social discourse -- Environmental pathways of toxic chemicals -- Dose-effect : the foundation of toxicological science -- Human populations at risk -- The cornerstone of risk assessment : toxicity testing in animals -- The body's defenses against chemical toxicity -- Mechanisms of chemical disease -- Human health risk assessment -- Ecological risk assessment -- Managing chemical risk in North America and Europe.
Covers the science that underlies toxic chemical risk assessment, the physiological and molecular bases of chemical toxicity, the process of assessing toxic chemical risk to human health and the environment, and the strategies employed in managing it. This book introduces the basics of toxicology from a risk assessment perspective.
