Behavioral toxicology is a young discipline in the United States;
so young, in fact, that this is one of its first books. Behavioral
questions are bound to play a major role in future scientific work
and governmental decisions involving the health effects of
environmental contaminants and other chemicals. This role springs
from two key problems that face scientists and public agencies
required to set acceptable exposure standards or to determine
criteria for the toxicity of therapeutic chemicals: How do you
evaluate effects that may show up only as subtle functional
disturbances? And how do you de tect toxic effects early enough so
that they may still be reversible, before they produce major
damage? The contributions in this book come from a collection of
scientists whose interests span a wide variety of problem areas.
The focus is largely on me thodological issues because they
represent the most immediate concern of the discipline. We expect
that this collection of papers will represent a useful source book
for behavioral toxicology for some time. For the past few years,
the University of Rochester's Department of Radiation Biology and
Biophysics has sponsored a series of international conferences on
chemical toxicity, partly as a response to concern over the con
sequences to health of the rich chemical soup in which we live.
This book is based upon presentations made to the fifth of the
series. Held in June, 1972, it was the first formal meeting devoted
to behavioral toxicology in this country."
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