Low Dose Exposures in the Environment: Dose-Effect Relations and Risk Evaluation (Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment, 23)

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Editorial: Springer, 2004

3540210830 / 9783540210832

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Hardcover, 470pp, NOT ex-library. Clean book, with unmarked text, no stamps. A small indentation to some lower outer page corners. Handling marks on boards; rubbed upper front board at spine. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Ethical Aspects of Risk [Rational Decision Making (Decision Makers; Alternatives; Probabilities of Consequences. Precautionary Principle; Utilitarianism & Consequentialism; Values; Time; Life; Health; Environmental Values; Known Individuals or Anonymous Ones; Free Choice; Consent; Distribution; Compensation; Background Exposure; Value of Actions; Comparison of Values. Ultimate Justification); Implementation: Ethics, Law & Economics]; Effects of Ionising Radiation in Low-Dose Range: Radiobiological Basis [What Is a Low Dose? (Microdosimetric & Biological Considerations); DNA Damage & Repair; Cellular Damages (Chromosomal Aberrations; Cell Transformation; Gene Mutations in Somatic Cells; Modifying Phenomena); Animal Experiments (Carcinogenesis & Life Shortening; Hereditary Diseases)]; Toxicology of Chemical Carcinogens [General Concepts & Dose-Response Relationships; Modifiers of Dose-Response of the Curve; Endogenous Chemical Carcinogens; Examples of Carcinogens & Modifiers Leading to Different Dose-Response Types (Vinyl Chloride; Aflatoxin B1; N,N-Diethylnitrosamine DEN; NNK (4-[N-methyl-N-nitrosoamino]-1-[3-pyridyl]-1-butanone); 2-Acetylaminofluorene 2-AAF; Arsenic; 4-Aminobiphenyl 4-ABP; Formaldehyde; Vinyl Acetate; Non DNA-Reactive Genotoxins; Non-Genotoxic Carcinogens); Interspecies Extrapolation; Interindividual Variations of Toxicological Response in Human Population (Age (Children); Relevance of Polymorphisms for Low-Dose Exposures)]; Epidemiological Perspectives on Low-Dose Exposure to Human Carcinogens [(Epidemiological Considerations & Methods; Relative & Absolute Risk Estimates; Biostatistical Considerations); Ionising & Non-Ionising Radiation (UV-light; Mobile Phones; Other Electro-Magnetic Fields); Smoking; Other Potential Carcinogenic Compounds (Insecticides; Industrial Chemicals & Waste & Emissions; Asbestos)]; Mathematical Models of Carcinogenesis [(Models of Carcinogenesis; Hazard & Excess Risk); Models Without Clonal Expansion; Models with Clonal Expansion; Ionising Radiation (Effects of Inhaled Radon Progeny; Effects of External Exposures; Low-Dose Radiobiological Effects & Risk Estimation); Carcinogenic Substances (Replication & Apoptosis of Intermediate Cells in Hepatocarcinogenesis; Combined Effects of an Initiating & Promoting Agent on Hepatocarcinogenesis; Lung Cancer Due to Coke Oven Emissions); Ionising Radiation & Carcinogenic Substances (Radon, Smoking, Arsenic; Low-Dose Risk After Exposure to an Initiating & Promoting Agent); Likelihood, Model Fits & Deviance]; Comparing Summary of Action of Ionising Radiation & Chemicals in Carcinogenesis; Hypothesis Testing & the Choice of Dose-Response Model [Uncertainties in Dose-Response Modelling (Extrapolation; Thresholds); Theories of Science (Hypothetico-Deductive Method; Laws, Hypotheses, Theories & Models: Differences Between Biology & Physics; Choosing Between Alternative Hypotheses; Popperian Falsification; Safety, Strength & Simplicity; Ad Hoc Hypothesis; Scientific Plausibility & Standards of Proof; Choice of Hypothesis in Science & for Policy]; Risk Evaluation & Communication [Risk Analysis (Definitions; Risk Assessment & Characterisation; Uncertainty, Precautionary Principle & Governance; Risk Management; Comparative Aspects of Interpreting Risks); Communication of Information on Risk]; Low Doses in Health-Related Environmental Law [Legal Framework; Risk Assessment, Low Doses & Environmental Law; Risk Assessment: Science & Law; Decision on the Tolerability of Exposure to Low Doses & Measures to Prevent or Reduce Risks; Organisation of the Decision-Making Process]; Summary; Zusammenfassung; Recommendations for Environmental Risks to Human Health: Evaluation & Regulatory Processes; Glossary].…

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Título
Low Dose Exposures in the Environment: Dose-Effect Relations and Risk Evaluation (Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment, 23)
Autor
Christian Streffer
Editorial
Springer
Año de publicación
2004
Estado
Good
Encuadernación
Hardcover
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
3540210830
ISBN 13
9783540210832

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