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Edited By
Stephen Holgate, Southampton General Hospital, U.K.
Hillel Koren, National Health & Environmental Effects Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Jonathan Samet, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
Robert Maynard, Department of Health, London, U.K.
Description
Concern about the impact of air pollution has led governments and local authorities across the world to regulate, among other things,
the burning of fossil fuels, industrial effluence, cigarette smoke, and aerosols. This legislation has often followed dramatic findings
about the impact of pollution on human health. At the same time there have been significant developments in our ability to detect and
quantify pollutants and a proliferation of urban and rural air pollution networks to monitor levels of atmospheric contamination.Air
Pollution and Health is the first fully comprehensive and current account of air pollution science and it impact on human health.
It ranges in scope from meteorology, atmospheric chemistry, and particle physics to the causes and scope of allergic reactions and respiratory,
cardiovascular, and related disorders. The book has substantial international coverage and includes sections on cost implications, risk
assessment, regulation, standards, and information networks. The multidisciplinary approach and the wide range of issues covered makes
this an essential book for all concerned with monitoring and regulating air pollution as well as those concerned with its impact on human
health.
Audience
Postgraduate, postdoctoral, and senior researchers in asthma, cardiology, pulmonary/respiratory topics, and pollution; epidemiologists; public health specialists; and medical practitioners.
Contents
Introduction, D.V. Bates.
Air Pollution and Health History, P. Brimblecombe.
Geographical, Atmospheric and Ground
Determinants of Air Pollution
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Basic Meterology, G.R. McGregor.
Atmospheric Chemistry, R.G. Derwent.
Measurements
of Concentrations of Air Pollutants, R.M. Harrison.
Patterns of Air Pollution in Developing Countries, M. Krzyzanowski and
D. Schwella.
Sources of Air Pollution, C. Holman.
Exposure Assessment, H. Ozkaynak.
Respiratory Tract
Determinants of Air Pollution Effects:
Animal Models to Study for Pollutant Effects, U.P. Kodavantri and D.L. Costa.
Novel Approaches to Study Nasal Responses to Air Pollution, L. Calderon-Garciduenas, T.L. Noah and H.S. Koren.
Effects of Cigarette
Smoke and Air Pollutants on the Lower Respiratory Tract, P.K. Jeffrey.
Structure-Function Relationships, P.A. Bromberg.
Deposition and Clearance of Inhaled Particles, W.M. Foster.
Respiratory Reflexes, J. Widdicombe.
Antioxidant Defences
in the Extracellular Compartment of the Human Lung, F.J. Kelly and R. Richards.
Air Pollutants: Modulators of Pulmonary Host
Resistance Against Infection, P.T. Thomas and J.T. Zelikoff.
Carcinogenic Responses to Air Pollutants, R.O. McClellan and
T.E. Jackson.
General Methodological Agents of Air Pollutant Health Effects:
Biomarkers of Exposure, M.C. Madden
and J.E. Gallagher.
The Epidemiological Approach to Investigating Outdoor Air Pollution, J.M. Samet and J.J.K. Jaakkola.
Health Effects of Air Pollution Episodes, H.R. Anderson.
Ozone:
Epidemiological Studies of Ozone Exposure Effects, G.D. Thurston and K. Ito.
Controlled Exposure to Ozone, Nitrogen Oxides and Acids, M.J. Hazucha.
Acute and Chronic
Effects of Ozone in Animal Models, R.C. Paige and C.G. Plopper.
Oxides of Nitrogen and Sulfur:
Epidemiological
Effects of Oxides of Nitrogen, Especially NO2, U. Ackermann-Liebrich and R. Rapp.
Toxicology of Sulfur Oxides, R.B. Schleisinger.
Acid Sulfate Aerosols and Health, F.E. Speizer.
Suspended Particulates:
Composition of Air Pollution Particles, F.D. Pooley and M. Milne.
Metals and Air Pollution Particles, A.J. Ghio and J.M. Samet.
Particulate Air Pollution:
Injurious and Protective Mechanisms in the Lungs, W. MacNee and K. Donaldson.
Epidemiology of Particle Effects, C.A. Pope
III and D.W. Dockery.
The Health Effects of Diesel Exhaust: Laboratory and Epidemiologic Studies, A.J. Cohen and K. Nikula.
Carbon Monoxide, Lead and Air Toxics:
Carbon Monoxide, R.L. Maynard and R. Waller.
Lead, A. Wadge.
Selected Organic Chemicals, L. Rushton and K. Cameron.
Estimating Health and Cost Impacts:
Air Pollution and
Lung Cancer, J.M. Samet and A.J. Cohen.
Controlled Exposures of Asthmatics to Air Pollutants, D.B. Peden.
Risk Assessment
and Air Pollution, J.M. Samet.
Estimating the Effects of Air Pollutants on the Population: Human Health Benefits of Sulfate
Aerosol Reductions Under Title IV of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendment, B.D. Ostro, L.G. Chestnut, D.M. Mills, and A.M. Watkins.
Costing the Health Effects of Poor Air Quality, D. Maddison and D. Pearce.
Air Quality Standards and Information Networks:
Technology and Costing of Air Pollution Abatement, W.F. Dimmick and A.H. Wehe.
United States and International Approaches to
Establishing Air Standards and Guidelines, L.D. Grant, C.R. Shoaf and J.M. Davis.
Air Quality Guidelines and Standards, M.
Lippman and R.L. Maynard.
Informing the Public about Air Pollution, R.L. Maynard and S.M. Coster.
Index.
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Hardbound, 1065 pages, publication date: APR-1999
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-352335-8
ISBN-10: 0-12-352335-4
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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