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Author: Stephen Shugar
Publisher: National Research Council of Canada [i.e. National Research Council Canada], NRCC Associate Committee on Scientific Criteria for Environmental Quality
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCritically examines the cause-effect data in the literature on asbestos and identifies gaps in knowledge which should be addressed by further research.
Author: Jessica van Horssen
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2016-01-15
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0774828447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor decades, manufacturers from around the world relied on asbestos to produce a multitude of fire-retardant products. As use of the mineral became more widespread, medical professionals discovered it had harmful effects on human health. Mining and manufacturing companies downplayed the risks to workers and the general public, but eventually, as the devastating nature of asbestos-related deaths became common knowledge, the industry suffered terminal decline. A Town Called Asbestos looks at how the people of Asbestos, Quebec, worked and lived alongside the largest chrysotile asbestos mine in the world. Dependent on this deadly industry for their community’s survival, they developed a unique, place-based understanding of their local environment; the risks they faced living next to the giant opencast mine; and their place within the global resource trade. This book unearths the local-global tensions that defined Asbestos’s proud history and reveals the challenges similar resource communities have faced – and continue to face today.
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2006-09-23
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0309101697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn conjunction with drafting comprehensive legislation concerning compensation for health effects related to asbestos exposure (the Fairness in Asbestos Injury Act), the Senate Committee on the Judiciary directed the Institute of Medicine to assemble the Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects. This committee was charged with addressing whether asbestos exposure is causally related to adverse health consequences in addition to asbestosis, mesothelioma, and lung cancer. Asbestos: Selected Cancers presents the committee's comprehensive distillation of the peer-reviewed scientific and medical literature regarding association between asbestos and colorectal, laryngeal, esophageal, pharyngeal, and stomach cancers.
Author: Robert P. Nolan
Publisher: Mineralogical Association of Canada = Association minéralogique du Canada
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprsises a collection of papers which summarize the state of knowledge abouth chrysotile and amphibole-group asbestos minerals like tremolite, riebeckite and grunerite from a historical and modern perspective.
Author: RobertE. Redmann
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-02-06
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1351450646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearch funded by the Centre for Resource Studies,Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Author: Committee on Nonoccupational Health Risks of Asbestiform Fibers
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 356
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuch of the more than 30 million tons of asbestos used in the United States since 1900 is still present as insulation in offices and schools, as vinyl-asbestos flooring in homes, and in other common products. This volume presents a comprehensive evaluation of the relation of these fibers to specific diseases and the extent of nonoccupational risks associated with them. It covers sources of asbestiform fibers, properties of the fibers, and carcinogenic and fibrogenic risks they pose.
Author: Earle A. Ripley
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 1995-08-01
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781884015762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearch funded by the Centre for Resource Studies,Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Author: Morton Lippmann
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009-03-26
Total Pages: 1189
ISBN-13: 0470442883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides the most current information and research available for performing risk assessments on exposed individuals and populations, giving guidance to public health authorities, primary care physicians, and industrial managers Reviews current knowledge on human exposure to selected chemical agents and physical factors in the ambient environment Updates and revises the previous edition, in light of current scientific literature and its significance to public health concerns Includes new chapters on: airline cabin exposures, arsenic, endocrine disruptors, and nanoparticles
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2000-10-21
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 030906371X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncineration has been used widely for waste disposal, including household, hazardous, and medical wasteâ€"but there is increasing public concern over the benefits of combusting the waste versus the health risk from pollutants emitted during combustion. Waste Incineration and Public Health informs the emerging debate with the most up-to-date information available on incineration, pollution, and human healthâ€"along with expert conclusions and recommendations for further research and improvement of such areas as risk communication. The committee provides details on: Processes involved in incineration and how contaminants are released. Environmental dynamics of contaminants and routes of human exposure. Tools and approaches for assessing possible human health effects. Scientific concerns pertinent to future regulatory actions. The book also examines some of the social, psychological, and economic factors that affect the communities where incineration takes place and addresses the problem of uncertainty and variation in predicting the health effects of incineration processes.
