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Principles of Environmental Toxicology
Toxicon 39 (2001) 1945±1946
Book reviews Environmental Assessment of Products. Volume 2: Scienti®c Background M. Hauschild, H. Wenzel (eds.). XII 1 565 pp., Chapman & Hall, London, Weinheim, New York, Tokyo, Melbourne, Madras, 1998. Volume 2 of the ªEnvironmental Assessment of Productsº summarizes the scienti®c background for the life cycle assessment of products. It contains 11 independent chapters. The main topics are global warming, stratospheric ozone depletion, photochemical ozone formation, acidi®cation, nutrient
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enrichment, ecotoxicity, human toxicity and resource consumption. The remaining three chapters describe the scienti®c background of the method that is used for including assessments of the working environment (EDIP method). Principles of the EDIP method are summarized in volume 1. The book is intended for environmental specialists. It is of bene®t for readers with technical and background knowledge who are familiar with environmental science. M. Kietzmann Hannover, Germany
PII: S00 41- 0101(01)001 13-1
Principles of Environmental Toxicology I.C. Shaw, J. Chadwick. XIII 1 216 pp., Taylor & Francis, Ltd., London, 1998. The book provides a general introduction to the main areas of environmental toxicology. Nine chapters include a historical review, descriptions of effects of pollutants on ecosystems, methods for environmental toxicity tests and environmental monitoring, information concerning human toxicology, fate and behaviour of chemicals in the environment and radioactivity in the environment as well as an
overview of worldwide environmental legislation. The text is completed by a prologue to the future. Includes ®gures and tables and an index are helpful. The recommendable book gives a comprehensive and informative introduction and overview of environmental toxicology. M. Kietzmann Hannover, Germany
PII: S00 41- 0101(01)001 14-3
Immunotoxicology of Environmental and Occupational Metals J.T. Zelikoff, P.T. Thomas (eds.). 374 pp., Taylor & Francis Ltd, London, 1998. The book includes 11 actual state-of-the-art summaries of immunotoxicological effects of metals (arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, indium, lead, mercury, nickel, platinum, vanadium, iron, zinc, copper) and summary tables concerning the immunotoxicology of these metals. All chapters which are written by scientists working in the ®eld of metal toxicology include a brief summary of the
history and the use of the metals, followed by the comprehensive description of the toxicology and immunotoxicology. The chapters are completed by a list of references. The recommendable book gives an informative overview of the immunotoxicology of the metals listed above. It is a helpful reference source for all academics involved with immunotoxicology. M. Kietzmann Hannover, Germany
PII: S00 41- 0101(01)001 15-5
New Approaches to Drug Development P. JolleÁs (ed.). 248 pp., 43 ®gures, BirkhaÈuser Verlag, Basel, Boston, Berlin, 2000. In recent years, numerous molecular biological studies
have widely extended our knowledge on the molecular mechanism of different diseases. This process is still going on and complete identi®cation of the humane genome will give us as yet undreamt possibilities to gain further insights into biological functions of the respective genes and enable
Book reviews Environmental Assessment of Products. Volume 2: Scienti®c Background M. Hauschild, H. Wenzel (eds.). XII 1 565 pp., Chapman & Hall, London, Weinheim, New York, Tokyo, Melbourne, Madras, 1998. Volume 2 of the ªEnvironmental Assessment of Productsº summarizes the scienti®c background for the life cycle assessment of products. It contains 11 independent chapters. The main topics are global warming, stratospheric ozone depletion, photochemical ozone formation, acidi®cation, nutrient
www.elsevier.com/locate/toxicon
enrichment, ecotoxicity, human toxicity and resource consumption. The remaining three chapters describe the scienti®c background of the method that is used for including assessments of the working environment (EDIP method). Principles of the EDIP method are summarized in volume 1. The book is intended for environmental specialists. It is of bene®t for readers with technical and background knowledge who are familiar with environmental science. M. Kietzmann Hannover, Germany
PII: S00 41- 0101(01)001 13-1
Principles of Environmental Toxicology I.C. Shaw, J. Chadwick. XIII 1 216 pp., Taylor & Francis, Ltd., London, 1998. The book provides a general introduction to the main areas of environmental toxicology. Nine chapters include a historical review, descriptions of effects of pollutants on ecosystems, methods for environmental toxicity tests and environmental monitoring, information concerning human toxicology, fate and behaviour of chemicals in the environment and radioactivity in the environment as well as an
overview of worldwide environmental legislation. The text is completed by a prologue to the future. Includes ®gures and tables and an index are helpful. The recommendable book gives a comprehensive and informative introduction and overview of environmental toxicology. M. Kietzmann Hannover, Germany
PII: S00 41- 0101(01)001 14-3
Immunotoxicology of Environmental and Occupational Metals J.T. Zelikoff, P.T. Thomas (eds.). 374 pp., Taylor & Francis Ltd, London, 1998. The book includes 11 actual state-of-the-art summaries of immunotoxicological effects of metals (arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, indium, lead, mercury, nickel, platinum, vanadium, iron, zinc, copper) and summary tables concerning the immunotoxicology of these metals. All chapters which are written by scientists working in the ®eld of metal toxicology include a brief summary of the
history and the use of the metals, followed by the comprehensive description of the toxicology and immunotoxicology. The chapters are completed by a list of references. The recommendable book gives an informative overview of the immunotoxicology of the metals listed above. It is a helpful reference source for all academics involved with immunotoxicology. M. Kietzmann Hannover, Germany
PII: S00 41- 0101(01)001 15-5
New Approaches to Drug Development P. JolleÁs (ed.). 248 pp., 43 ®gures, BirkhaÈuser Verlag, Basel, Boston, Berlin, 2000. In recent years, numerous molecular biological studies
have widely extended our knowledge on the molecular mechanism of different diseases. This process is still going on and complete identi®cation of the humane genome will give us as yet undreamt possibilities to gain further insights into biological functions of the respective genes and enable