Synopsis
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
PART 1: ARTIFICIAL LIGHT AND HUMAN TEMPORAL ORGANIZATION
Chapter 2: Artificial light and its physicochemical properties (by Fabio Falchi)
Chapter 3: Light and dark cycles as a basis of temporal organization
Chapter 4: The biological clock and its entrainment by photoperiod Chapter 5: LAN exposure and its potential effects on daily rhythms and seasonal disruptions
Chapter 6: Melatonin (MLT) -"hormone of darkness" and a "jack of all traits"
PART II: LIGHT POLLUTION, ITS KNOWN HEALTH EFFECTS AND IMPACT ON ENERGY CONSERVATION
Chapter 7: Introduction and spread of artificial illumination - a human history retrospective.
Chapter 8: Biological definition of light pollution
Chapter 9: Light pollution as a general stressor
Chapter 10: The effects of light pollution on animal rhythms and ecology
Chapter 11: Light pollution and hormone-dependent cancers: summary of accumulated empirical evidence
PART III: LIGHT POLLUTION AND ITS POTENTIAL LINKS TO BREAST AND PROSTATE CANCERS
Chapter 12: Geographic patterns of breast and prostate cancers (BC&PC) worldwide
Chapter 13: Light pollution and its association with breast and prostate cancers (BC&PC) in population-level studies
Chapter 14: Selected methodological issues of Light-at-Night (LAN) - Breast and Prostate Cancers (BC&PC) research
Chapter 15: Dark-less world - what is next? (Conclusions and prospects for future research)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ADDITIONAL READING
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Review
This novel, important, clearly written book brings together several familiar subjects whose connections had not been appreciated. We are grateful for widespread electric lighting (a relatively new phenomenon in human history), and we fear widespread breast cancer and prostate cancer. Many of us have also heard of biological clocks and the hormone melatonin. The authors assemble evidence that the blessings of electric lighting are a risk factor for the curses of breast cancer and prostate cancer, mediated by effects on our biological clocks and our melatonin production. Hence this book will interest not only scholars but also the broad public.
Jared Diamond
Professor of Physiology, Environmental Health Sciences, and Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles
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