For several decades, among the medical community and the public at large, there has been an increasing awareness and increasing concern in relation to environmentally-related diseases. If you are an industrial hygienist, occupational or environmental health physician, pulmonologist, epidemiologist, toxicologist, or civil engineer, you can now look to Environmental Respiratory Diseases for practical, reliable, up-to-date information on environmentally-related respiratory diseases. The editors of this volume are Edward M. Cordasco, an authority on environmentally-induced pulmonary diseases; Stephen L. Demeter, professor of medicine and also a pulmonary expert; and Carl Zenz, editor of the acclaimed Occupational Medicine. You will find here the latest information on diseases of the respiratory system caused by environmental exposures. You will also find much practical information on diagnosis, monitoring for exposures, and treatment of medical conditions related to contaminated air, water, and soil. This book supplies you with comprehensive and timely discussions of:
- sources and types of environmental contaminants
- physiologic and pathologic responses of the respiratory system
- sequelae of toxic inhalation
- approaches to environmental surveillance
- environmental causes of respiratory cancers
- asbestos-related lung disease
- radon risk
- exposure to electromagnetic radiation
- pulmonary effects of indoor and outdoor air pollution
- respiratory health risks in agriculture
- allergic respiratory diseases
- research resources for environmental respiratory diseases
