Asbestos and its diseases
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : John E Craighead; A R Gibbs
- ناشر : New York : Oxford University Press
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2008
- شابک / ISBN : 9780195178692
Description
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.
