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Title:
Asbestos and its diseases / edited by John E. Craighead and Allen R. Gibbs.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2008
Description:
xii, 403 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm.
Subject:
Asbestosis.
Asbestos--Toxicology.
Asbestos--Health aspects.
Asbestos--Carcinogenicity.
Asbestos--adverse effects.
Asbestosis--etiology.
Lung Neoplasms--etiology.
Occupational Exposure--adverse effects.
Pleural Neoplasms--etiology.
Other Authors:
Craighead, John E.
Gibbs, A. R.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
From cotton-stone to the New York conference: asbestos-related diseases 1878-1965 / Bruce W. Case -- Mineralogy of asbestos / John E. Craighead, Allen Gibbs, and Fred Pooley -- Disease associated with asbestos industrial products and environmental exposure / John E. Craighead -- Epidemiology and risk assessment / Graham W. Gibbs and Geoffrey Berry --
Molecular responses to asbestos : induction of cell proliferation and apoptosis through modulation of redox-dependent cell signaling pathways / Nicholas H. Heintz and Brooke T. Mossman -- Benign pleural and parenchymal disease associated with asbestos exposure / John E. Craighead -- Lung cancer associated with asbestos exposure / Richard Attanoos --
Malignant disease of the pleura, peritoneum, and other serosal surfaces / Allen R. Gibbs and John E. Craighead -- Non-thoracic cancers possibly resulting from asbestos exposure / John E. Craighead -- Diagnostic features and clinical evaluation of the asbestos-associated disease / David Weil -- Radiological features of the asbestos-associated diseases / Haydn Adams and Michael D. Crane --
Mineral fiber analysis and asbestos-related diseases / Allen R. Gibbs and Fred Pooley -- U.S. governmental regulatory approaches and actions / John E. Craighead -- Therapeutic approaches to malignant mesothelioma / Harvey I. Pass, Steven Hahn, and Nicholas Vogelzang -- Asbestos exposure and the law in the United States / Kevin Leahy -- Asbestos exposure and disease in the 20th and 21st centuries / Bertram Price and Adam Ware.
ISBN:
0195178696 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780195178692 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN:
2007028381
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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