Health Hazards of Environmental Arsenic Poisoning : From Epidemic to Pandemic /

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Imprint:Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Pub., ©2011.
Description:1 online resource (vi, 247 pages) : illustrations (some color), map
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11124422
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Other authors / contributors:Chen, Jianren, 1951-
Chiou, Hung-Yi.
ISBN:9789814291828
981429182X
1283433362
9781283433365
9789814291811
9814291811
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:This book covers the entire spectrum of health effects induced by chronic arsenic poisoning, which is prevalent in more than 30 countries due to the use of unclean underground water, a result of surface water pollution and shortage. This environmental health disaster has been considered more catastrophic than the Chernobyl nuclear plant explosion in the former Soviet Union and the Bhopal chemical plant explosion in India. All contributors to this review volume have done extensive research on arsenic poisoning and published excellent papers in internationally well-known journals. Health Hazards.
Other form:Print version: Health hazards of environmental arsenic poisoning. Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Pub., ©2011 9789814291811