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Asbestos and its diseases / edited by John E. Craighead and Allen R. Gibbs.
Holman Biotech Commons RC775.A8 A75 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asbestosis.
- Asbestos--Toxicology.
- Asbestos.
- Asbestos--Health aspects.
- Asbestos--Carcinogenicity.
- Asbestos--adverse effects.
- Asbestosis--etiology.
- Lung Neoplasms--etiology.
- Occupational Exposure--adverse effects.
- Pleural Neoplasms--etiology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Asbestos--adverse effects.
- Asbestosis--etiology.
- Lung Neoplasms--etiology.
- Occupational Exposure--adverse effects.
- Pleural Neoplasms--etiology.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 403 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (partly color), maps ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- From cotton-stone to the New York conference: asbestos-related diseases 1878-1965 / Bruce W. Case
- Mineralogy of asbestos / John E. Craighead, Allen Gibbs, and Fred Pooley
- Diseases associated with asbestos industrial products and environmental exposure / John E. Craighead
- Epidemiology and risk assessment / Graham W. Gibbs and Geoffrey Berry
- Molecular responses to asbestos: induction of cell proliferation and apoptosis through modulation of redox-dependent cell signaling pathways / Nicholas H. Heintz and Brooke T. Mossman
- Benign pleural and parenchymal diseases associated with asbestos exposure / John E. Craighead
- Lung cancer associated with asbestos exposure / Richard Attanoos
- Malignant diseases of the pleura, peritoneum, and other serosal surfaces / Allen R. Gibbs and John E. Craighead
- Nonthoracic cancers possibly resulting from asbestos exposure / John E. Craighead
- Diagnostic features and clinical evaluation of the asbestos-associated diseases / David Weill
- Radiological features of the asbestos-associated diseases / Haydn Adams and Michael D. Crane
- Mineral fiber analysis and asbestos-related diseases / Allen R. Gibbs and Fred Pooley
- US governmental regulatory approaches and actions / John E. Craighead
- Therapeutic approaches to malignant mesothelioma / Harvey I. Pass, Steven Hahn, and Nicholas Vogelzang
- Asbestos exposure and the law in the United States / Kevin Leahy
- Asbestos exposure and disease in the 20th and 21st centuries / Bertram Price and Adam Ware.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195178692
- 0195178696
- OCLC:
- 155756293
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