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0849328292 978-0849328299 September 29, 2005 1
While there are hundreds of books available on many different aspects of asbestos, none contain the encyclopedic, comprehensive coverage you will find here. Edited by leading authorities, with contributions from specialists and leaders in their respective fields, Asbestos: Risk Assessment, Epidemiology, and Health Effects provides a cross-disciplinary approach and an authoritative review of asbestos research. The breadth and depth of coverage spans history, pathology, epidemiology, as well as sampling, analysis, and regulatory issues.

Following the path of asbestos from its natural sources to its effects at the cell, organism, and population levels, the volume covers testing methods, types of exposure, and the associated health effects. It provides a multi-disciplinary look at sampling methods, analysis, pathology, and regulations. The book explores differences in the detection levels achieved with various techniques applied to the various types of environmental and human samples. This includes comparisons of recommended and/or required sampling schemes and the parameters associated with the instruments used in each of the methods.

Offering state-of-the-art data on asbestos exposure and the resultant development of disease, the content is styled so that the depth of coverage is sufficient for specialists and researchers but also useful for anyone having to deal with asbestos-related problems.

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The authors clearly have a very detailed understanding of the relevant laws and provide a comprehensive overview of the links between these and environmental health. [the book's] value lies in meeting the generalist needs of public interest groups, high school teachers, first year introductory undergraduate courses and, possibly, Environmental Health Practitioners.
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  • Hardcover: 425 pages
  • Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (September 29, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0849328292
  • ISBN-13: 978-0849328299
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars the most comprehensive book on asbestos yet, February 21, 2010
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This is a very thorough, up to date book on all the issues surrounding asbestos related disease at both individual and public health levels. It is balanced, factual and useful. It will be of great assistance to undergraduate and post graduate students and those involved in asbestos litigation. It makes a plea for more and better teaching of occupational and environmental medicine and public health.it is packed with US based environmental control legislation but the book as a whole is international in focus.
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First Sentence:
Asbestos is a commercial term used to describe two families of naturally occurring minerals. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
wet lung tissue, asbestos body formation, uncoated asbestos fibers, asbestos fiber burden, hyaline pleural plaques, dry lung tissue, pseudomesotheliomatous carcinoma, asbestos bodies, ferruginous bodies, other more probable cause, asbestos burden, pulmonary asbestosis, familial mesothelioma, talc workers, visceral pleural fibrosis, asbestos cement workers, epithelial mesotheliomas, past asbestos exposure, pleural mesothelial cells, pleural asbestosis, benign asbestos pleural effusion, chrysotile exposure, asbestos methods, rat tracheal explants, tremolite fibers
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United States, New York, Care Med, Cell Mol, Health Perspect, Public Health Service, South Africa, American Thoracic Society, Environmental Protection Agency, Work Environ, Department of Labor, Association of American Railroads, Academic Press, Environmental Measurement Methods, Environmental Medicine, World War, Cancer Res, Federal Register, World Health Organization, American Medical Association, Cancer Inst, Free Radic, Great Britain, San Francisco, British Columbia
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