Environmental-Health Books

Thirty years ago I met the predecessor to this volume. Sounds like a long time? I have made it those 30 years because of what I learned from this book.

If you are a chemistry student (I was a freshman when I encountered this book) then you need to read this book before you start working with your reagents.

If you are employed in a field where you work in a laboratory or come into contact with laboratory materials (albeit - it is aimed at chemical labs and not specifically at bioscience labs) then you need to read about the materials you could be exposed to, BEFORE you are exposed.

If you are a medical professional - then you already have one.

If you are a legal professional and you deal with toxic torts: you need one.

Concise, clear and accessible by any high school grad. If you work with chemicals - you need this book.

This collection of articles is action-packed from first page to last: the ozone layer is thinning, species are going extinct, toxins are spreading, and the globe is warming. Will mankind, lead by a heroic band of public health researchers and physicians, come to its political senses in time to save the planet?

You will never know the thrilling outcome of "Critical Condition" unless you order a copy today!

This book covers broad aspects of Occupational medicine and is easy to read.

Before you conclude from the title of this work that its contents are as dry as dust, let me assure you they are not. Notwithstanding its scholarly, measured language and meticulous documentation, this is a passionate, absorbing, and infuriating story of corporate greed and criminal contempt for the health of our country's foundry workers. The authors persuasively argue that the lower the status and power of the workers, the greater was their exposure to occupational health hazards. Despite the efforts of courageous lone voices in government and academia, the facts about silicosis were often suppressed. For example, a prestigious academic hired with industry approval to investigate the relationship between sandblasting and silicosis could not even publish his findings in a U.S. journal; his article was published in Germany instead! That millions of workers suffered severe disability and premature death due to silicosis had nothing to do with ignorance. As in the case of the cigarette industry, the facts were there: what was lacking was the government mandate and power to act on the facts. Anyone who carefully follows this tragic tale of unrelenting, unregulated greed and callousness by the foundries would do well to ponder the overly generalized assaults on the evils of big government in the U.S. Greater accountability and regulation earlier could have saved millions of lives. By the way, as the authors point out, industry was quite willing to embrace big government when it suited them. "Employers who had opposed the inclusion of silicosis... came running to the State pleading for the inclusion... so that they would be protected against the unlimited and terrifying common law damage suits which were being filed."

I am writing more as a reviewer of Dr. Goldstein herself than of the book, as I have had the pleasure of being one of her students. Dr. Goldstein is a lucid and intelligent woman, who is genuinely interested in conveying her knowledge to her readers, in text, and students, in person. Both the book and its author have been celebrated for the contribution "Demanding Clean Food and Water" has made to the pursuit of human rights. If you are seeking understanding as well as information, I highly recommend you read her work.

This is a book of great depth and insightful analysis. I highly recommend this book to anyone. I wish it recieved more attention from universities. An absolute pageturner and all other suitable cliches. As true as anything written.

Louis Pol and Rick Thomas have rendered a valuable service with this book. For demographers it demonstrates how their methods, concepts and data can be applied to important health and health care issues; for health care professionals, it shows that the "demographic perspective" yields valuable insights into a wide range of health and health care issues. The book is clearly written, well-organized, and has a very useful set of references. The book can serve both as a reference tool for practicing professionals and as a textbook for upper-division and graduate courses dealing with health and population.

Bruce E. Johansen's The Dirty Dozen surveys toxic chemicals and the planet's future, considering the highly toxic effects of the most commonly used chemicals banned in many countries by international treaty in 2000. From dioxins to the accumulation of dangerous chemicals in arctic environments, The Dirty Dozen reveals patterns of migration, synergy and chemical reactions which have an ongoing effect on the Earth's systems.

Discover Wellness: A Directory For Self-Help Healing And Illness Prevention by Phyllis Taber-Greenberg is a collection of insightful and cogent advice for illness prevention and personal healing which is not readily available from traditional medical sources and reference collections. From avoiding types of makeup that irritate the skin, to taking diet and lifestyle precautions against cancer, to household air pollution and its cure; to lowered immune system functioning, and more Discover Wellness combines long-standing wisdom with the latest, yet-to-be-formalized but powerful warnings of the substances and contrivances that could unknowingly be contributing to the reader's poor health. Covering more than seventy-one health topics and issues ranging from obesity to Alzheimer's, as well as offering an invaluable resource contact list for people and products, Discover Wellness is a very highly recommended, practical and informative reference for identifying a health problem and then correcting the problem.

I have found Saperstein's book to be very timely and informative. It sounds the alarm and provides the action plan for anyone who is concerned with water quality and their health today. I think this book belongs not only in every organics and health foods store, but in every home as well.