Low Dose Exposures in the Environment: Dose-Effect Relations and Risk Evaluation (Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment, 23)

Hardcover, 470pp, NOT ex-library. Clean book, with unmarked text, no stamps. A small indentation to some lower outer page corners. Handling marks on boards; rubbed upper front board at spine. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Ethical Aspects of Risk [Rational Decision Making (Decision Makers; Alternatives; Probabilities of Consequences. Precautionary Principle; Utilitarianism & Consequentialism; Values; Time; Life; Health; Environmental Values; Known Individuals or Anonymous Ones; Free Choice; Consent; Distribution; Compensation; Background Exposure; Value of Actions; Comparison of Values. Ultimate Justification); Implementation: Ethics, Law & Economics]; Effects of Ionising Radiation in Low-Dose Range: Radiobiological Basis [What Is a Low Dose? (Microdosimetric & Biological Considerations); DNA Damage & Repair; Cellular Damages (Chromosomal Aberrations; Cell Transformation; Gene Mutations in Somatic Cells; Modifying Phenomena); Animal Experiments (Carcinogenesis & Life Shortening; Hereditary Diseases)]; Toxicology of Chemical Carcinogens [General Concepts & Dose-Response Relationships; Modifiers of Dose-Response of the Curve; Endogenous Chemical Carcinogens; Examples of Carcinogens & Modifiers Leading to Different Dose-Response Types (Vinyl Chloride; Aflatoxin B1; N,N-Diethylnitrosamine DEN; NNK (4-[N-methyl-N-nitrosoamino]-1-[3-pyridyl]-1-butanone); 2-Acetylaminofluorene 2-AAF; Arsenic; 4-Aminobiphenyl 4-ABP; Formaldehyde; Vinyl Acetate; Non DNA-Reactive Genotoxins; Non-Genotoxic Carcinogens); Interspecies Extrapolation; Interindividual Variations of Toxicological Response in Human Population (Age (Children); Relevance of Polymorphisms for Low-Dose Exposures)]; Epidemiological Perspectives on Low-Dose Exposure to Human Carcinogens [(Epidemiological Considerations & Methods; Relative & Absolute Risk Estimates; Biostatistical Considerations); Ionising & Non-Ionising Radiation (UV-light; Mobile Phones; Other Electro-Magnetic Fields); Smoking; Other Potential Carcinogenic Compounds (Insecticides; Industrial Chemicals & Waste & Emissions; Asbestos)]; Mathematical Models of Carcinogenesis [(Models of Carcinogenesis; Hazard & Excess Risk); Models Without Clonal Expansion; Models with Clonal Expansion; Ionising Radiation (Effects of Inhaled Radon Progeny; Effects of External Exposures; Low-Dose Radiobiological Effects & Risk Estimation); Carcinogenic Substances (Replication & Apoptosis of Intermediate Cells in Hepatocarcinogenesis; Combined Effects of an Initiating & Promoting Agent on Hepatocarcinogenesis; Lung Cancer Due to Coke Oven Emissions); Ionising Radiation & Carcinogenic Substances (Radon, Smoking, Arsenic; Low-Dose Risk After Exposure to an Initiating & Promoting Agent); Likelihood, Model Fits & Deviance]; Comparing Summary of Action of Ionising Radiation & Chemicals in Carcinogenesis; Hypothesis Testing & the Choice of Dose-Response Model [Uncertainties in Dose-Response Modelling (Extrapolation; Thresholds); Theories of Science (Hypothetico-Deductive Method; Laws, Hypotheses, Theories & Models: Differences Between Biology & Physics; Choosing Between Alternative Hypotheses; Popperian Falsification; Safety, Strength & Simplicity; Ad Hoc Hypothesis; Scientific Plausibility & Standards of Proof; Choice of Hypothesis in Science & for Policy]; Risk Evaluation & Communication [Risk Analysis (Definitions; Risk Assessment & Characterisation; Uncertainty, Precautionary Principle & Governance; Risk Management; Comparative Aspects of Interpreting Risks); Communication of Information on Risk]; Low Doses in Health-Related Environmental Law [Legal Framework; Risk Assessment, Low Doses & Environmental Law; Risk Assessment: Science & Law; Decision on the Tolerability of Exposure to Low Doses & Measures to Prevent or Reduce Risks; Organisation of the Decision-Making Process]; Summary; Zusammenfassung; Recommendations for Environmental Risks to Human Health: Evaluation & Regulatory Processes; Glossary].