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A Biologic Approach to Environmental Assessment and Epidemiology (Hardcover, New)
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A Biologic Approach to Environmental Assessment and Epidemiology (Hardcover, New)
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Environmental chemical hazards are a highly contentious topic in
modern life. Nearly every nation on earth has faced its own
environmental crises, and also shares perspectives on the
possibility of global catastrophes. Of the many global concerns we
face, the environmental issue is unique in many ways. The greatest
of these is the fundamental scientific nature of the issue, and the
extent to which our opinions are formed based on high-level
scientific inquiry and assessment. The two key fields of study on
this issue, environmental epidemiology and exposure assessment, are
still given separate names because of their separate historical
roots and scientific traditions, but are seen increasingly as
inseparable aspects of the same basic investigation. In this book,
Thomas J. Smith and David Kriebel assert that important advances in
the quantification of environmental risks can only come through a
true synthesis of the two fields. They have built a common biologic
model of exposure, physiologic response, and disease, a synthesis
of the various existing models which serves to both simplify and
improve the application of environmental epidemiology and exposure
assessment to current and future environmental chemical risks. When
exposure assessor and epidemiologist agree from the start on the
model for their study, the conceptual framework for the study they
design and the analyses they carry out are much more likely to
yield useful exposure-risk information. An explicit biologic model
of the apparent processes linking exposure to disease should form
the basis for any study seeking to quantify risk from environmental
chemicals.
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