Health and the Environment: The Linacre Lectures 1992-3 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198584172 ISBN 13: 9780198584179

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1995

Synopsis

What can we do to improve a world environment that is increasingly posing a health risk to its inhabitants? How far are environmental factors implicated in the major health issues of our day? In this book leading medical scientists and environmentalists look at the connections between the environment, social policy, and levels of health in developed and developing countries. Originally delivered as lectures at Oxford University, the book's chapters examine such issues as the benefits of nuclear power in comparison with the use of fossil fuels, the global context of scarcity and famine, the effects on health of mass food production in developed countries, and the connection between the spread of disease and environmental conditions. Genetic aspects of susceptibility to disease are also considered, and the final chapter sums up the many difficult issues of human health in an environmental context. With balanced and informative contributions from leaders in the field, the book will be avidly read by all those concerned with public health, ecology, environmental sciences, and developing economies.

About this title

About the Author

Principle of Linacre College, Oxford, Sir Bryan Cartledge was previously British Ambassador to the Soviet Union. He was there when the Chernobyl disaster occurred which forced environmental factors in health to the centre of his attention.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0198584172
• ISBN 13: 9780198584179
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Cartledge Bryan