| Description |
290 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Saturnine drugs and medicinal exposure to lead: an historical outline / Jerome O. Nriagu -- Modern history of lead poisoning: a century of discovery and rediscovery / Jane S. Lin-Fu -- The monitoring of human lead exposure / Paul Mushak -- Lead in the environment: from sources to human receptors / Cliff I. Davidson and Michael Rabinowitz -- Neurological perspective on lead toxicity / Ellen K. Silbergeld -- Visual and auditory system alterations following developmental or adult lead exposure: a critical review / Donald A. Fox -- Developmental neurobiology of lead toxicity / Gary W. Goldstein -- Behavioral impairment produced by developmental lead exposure: evidence from primate research / Deborah C. Rice -- Occupational lead exposure / Thomas D. Matte, Philip J. Landrigan, and Edward L. Baker -- Lead, the kidney, and hypertension / Richard P. Wedeen -- Neurodevelopmental effects of low-level lead exposure in children / David Bellinger and Herbert L. Needleman. |
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(cont.) Low-level lead exposure: effect on quantitative electroencephalography and correlation with neuropsychologic measures / James L. Burchfiel ... [et al.] -- Lead, blood pressure, and cardiovascular disease / Joel Schwartz -- Low level health effects of lead: growth, developmental, and neurological disturbances / Joel Schwartz -- Recent epidemiologic studies of low-level lead exposure and the IQ of children: a meta-analytic review / Constantine A. Gatsonis and Herbert L. Needleman -- Economic aspects of the litigation for harm due to lead poisoning / Richard G. Frank -- The role of values in science and policy: the case of lead / Samuel P. Hays. |
| Subject |
Neurotoxicology.
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Lead -- Toxicology.
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Environmental Exposure.
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Lead -- adverse effects.
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Lead Poisoning.
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| Added Author |
Needleman, Herbert L., 1927-2017
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| ISBN |
084936034X |
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