How Much Risk?: A Guide to Understanding Environmental Health Hazards

by Martin Goldstein and Inge F. Goldstein

Book Overview

An excellent critical analysis and scientific assessment of the nature and actual level of risk leading environmental health hazards pose to the public. Issues such as radiation from nuclear testing, radon in the home, and the connection between electromagnetic fields and cancer, environmental factors and asthma, pesticides and breast cancer and leukemia clusters around nuclear plants are discussed, and how scientists assess these risks is illuminated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195139941
• ISBN13: 9780195139945
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"