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Main Title Phantom risk : scientific inference and the law /
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Foster, Kenneth R.,
Bernstein, David E.,
Huber, Peter W.
Publisher MIT Press,
Year Published 1993
OCLC Number 27014073
ISBN 0262061562; 9780262061568; 9780262561198; 0262561190
Subjects Science and law ; Torts ; Causation ; Risk ; Risk assessment ; Environmental Exposure ; Jurisprudence ; United States ; Liability, Legal ; 8619 law: other--(NL-LeOCL)077607880 ; 8639 civil law: other--(NL-LeOCL)077608054 ; Gesundheitsgefährdung ; Recht ; Risico's ; Gezondheid ; Onrechtmatige daad ; Causaliteit ; Lichamelijk letsel ; Bewijs (recht) ; Epidemiologie ; Wettelijke aansprakelijkheid ; Rocks ; âEvaluation du risque ; Risk Factors
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EJER RISK K487.S3P43 1993 OCSPP Chemical Library/Washington,DC 10/14/1994
Collation x, 457 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Notes
Weak magnetic fields : a cancer connection? / Kenneth R. Foster -- Spermicides and birth defects / James L. Mills -- Bendectin and the language of causation / Louis Lasagna and Sheila R. Shulman -- Miscarriage and video display terminals : an update / Kenneth R. Foster -- Environmental pollution and cancer : some misconceptions / Bruce N. Ames and Lois Swirsky Gold -- Asbestos : the hazard, the risk, and public policy / Ralph D'Agostino, Jr., and Richard Wilson -- The human health effects of polychlorinated biphenyls / Renate D. Kimbrough -- Trichloroethylene : toxicology and epidemiology : a critical review of the literature / Rudolph J. Jaeger and Arlene L. Weiss -- Dioxin : perceptions, estimates, and measures / Michael Gough -- The Three Mile Island nuclear accident and public health consequences / George K. Tokuhata. The fallout controversy / Ralph E. Lapp -- The saga of Fernald / Bernard L. Cohen -- Trauma and cancer / Marvin M. Romsdahl -- Chemical pollutants and "multiple chemical sensitivities" / Michael I. Luster, Gary J. Rosenthal, and Dori R. Germolec -- Immunological laboratory tests : a critique of the Alcolac decision / Richard S. Cornfeld and Stuart F. Schlossman. Birth defects; Cancer and pollution; Asbestos hazards; Polychlorinated biphenyls health effects; Trichloroethylene toxicolgy and epidemiology; Dioxin; Nuclear fallout; Chemical pollutants, etc.