The Secret Life of Chemicals (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)

This book provides extensive information on the chemicals that inhabit our environment, our food, our water and our air and the impact that they may be having on human health. The author is a medical scientist, with training in the law. The book documents current understanding about pesticides in food, the plastics revolution, toxic metals, air, water and electronic waste pollutants, chemical exposure in the workplace, radiation pollutants, chemical exposure and hearing loss, how our bodies deal with chemicals, genetic variability and the risk of disease, the effect of chemicals on genes, mitochondria and the immune system and what we can do about it all. Industrialisation has resulted in many thousands of chemicals, which are being continuously developed and often escaping from where they are used into our human environment, without us really knowing enough about them. In high dosages or with continuous small dosage, the evidence suggests, that many of them could interfere with human health and some of them are known to be doing so. But for the vast majority, we are left wondering whether some could be responsible for some diseases the causes of which are inadequately understood. Every chapter is thoroughly reinforced with several pages of references from the peer-reviewed literature.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	December 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Alfred Poulos
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	241
Edition:	1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-080337-7
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Chemistry > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Environmental medicine > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Waste management > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > General
LSN:	3-03-080337-6
Barcode:	9783030803377

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