Everyday Chemicals: Understanding the Risks 9780231556255

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Everyday Chemicals: Understanding the Risks 9780231556255

This book is a layperson’s guide to understanding chemical risk. The toxicologist Gerald A. LeBlanc offers a nontechnica

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Everyday Chemicals: Understanding the Risks 023120597X, 9780231205979

What is the likelihood that common chemicals such as bisphenol-A, which is found in plastic water bottles, are harming u

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In the Chamber of Risks: Understanding Risk Controversies 9780773569515

Through a new set of detailed case studies William Leiss shows that while industry and governments have made much progre

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E-Cigarettes : The Risks of Addictive Nicotine and Toxic Chemicals [1 ed.] 9781502605658, 9781502605641

The Risks of Addictive Nicotine and Toxic Chemicals: E-cigarettes are sold to help people quit using cigarettes but they

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Principles for Evaluating Health Risks to Reproduction With Exposure to Chemicals 9241572256, 9789241572255, 9780585474885

Intended as a tool for use by public health officials research and regulatory scientists and risk managers this publicat

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Toxicological Risks of Selected Flame-Retardant Chemicals [1 ed.] 9780309592321, 9780309070478

Ignition of upholstered furniture by small open flames from matches, cigarette lighters, and candles is one of the leadi

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In the Chamber of Risks : Understanding Risk Controversies [1 ed.] 9780773569515, 9780773522381

The essential problem is the failure to recognize that controversies over risks are "normal events" in modern

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Getting Risk Right: Understanding the Science of Elusive Health Risks 9780231542852

An incisive look at some of today’s most contested health risks—both real and illusory.

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Getting Risk Right: Understanding the Science of Elusive Health Risks 9780231542852

An incisive look at some of today’s most contested health risks—both real and illusory.

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The Geography of the Everyday: Toward an Understanding of the Given 9780820351681, 9780820351674, 9780820351667

Anthropologists, psychologists, feminists, and sociologists have long studied the “everyday,” the quotidian, the taken-f

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