Environmental health : Third World problems--first world preoccupations

• Other Authors: Mooney, Lorraine, Bate, Roger
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford ; Woburn, Mass. : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999.
• Subjects: Environmental health.; International cooperation.; Social sciences.; Medical personnel.; Politics, Practical.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 1591242266; 9781591242260; 0750642238; 9780750642231
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 236 pages)

Annotation

Table of Contents:

• Malaria and the DDT story / Kelvin Kemm
• Dirty water : cholera in Peru / Enrique Ghersi and Hector Ñaupari
• A sociology of health panics / Frank Furedi
• Ecological risk : actual and hypothetical / Kirill Kondratyev
• Politics, policy, poisoning and food scares / Barrie Craven and Christine Johnson
• Dietary nitrates pose no threat to human health / Jean Louis L'hirondel
• Rachel's folly : the end of chlorine / Michelle Malkin and Michael Fumento
• Organochlorines
• natural and anthropogenic / Gordon Gribble
• Nature's hormone factory / Jonathan Tolman
• The saga of the falling sperm counts / James Le Fanu.