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How Everyday Products Make People Sick, Updated and Expanded: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace
Paul D. Blanc
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Description for How Everyday Products Make People Sick, Updated and Expanded: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace
Paperback. Reveals the hidden health dangers in many of the seemingly innocent products we encounter every day - a tube of glue in a kitchen drawer, a bottle of bleach in the laundry room, a rayon scarf on a closet shelf, a brass knob on the front door, and a wood plank on an outdoor deck. Num Pages: 424 pages, 14 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 584.
This book reveals the hidden health dangers in many of the seemingly innocent products we encounter every day - a tube of glue in a kitchen drawer, a bottle of bleach in the laundry room, a rayon scarf on a closet shelf, a brass knob on the front door, a wood plank on an outdoor deck. A compelling expose, written by a physician with extensive experience in public health and illustrated with disturbing case histories, "How Everyday Products Make People Sick" is a rich and meticulously documented account of injury and illness across different time periods, places, and technologies.
This book reveals the hidden health dangers in many of the seemingly innocent products we encounter every day - a tube of glue in a kitchen drawer, a bottle of bleach in the laundry room, a rayon scarf on a closet shelf, a brass knob on the front door, a wood plank on an outdoor deck. A compelling expose, written by a physician with extensive experience in public health and illustrated with disturbing case histories, "How Everyday Products Make People Sick" is a rich and meticulously documented account of injury and illness across different time periods, places, and technologies.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520261273
SKU
V9780520261273
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About Paul D. Blanc
Paul D. Blanc is Professor of Medicine and holds the Endowed Chair in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
Reviews for How Everyday Products Make People Sick, Updated and Expanded: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace
"A superbly researched and scholarly book that traces the history of the author's selection of relatively well-known occupational hazards." Occupational & Environmental Medicine