How Much Risk?: A Guide to Understanding Environmental Health Hazards (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780195139945)

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. This book will enable readers to better understand environmental health issues, and with the proper scientific understanding, make informed, rational decisions about them.

Author: Inge F. Goldstein, Martin Goldstein
ISBN-10: 0195139941
ISBN-13: 9780195139945
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/03/2002
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.50w x 1.08d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2002 pg. 309